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Through his “optick tube” — it was not called “tele - scope” for some time — Galileo had observed “stars innumerable,” and had solved the mystery of the Milky

COSMIC VOYAGES MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

But howsoever, proceeded the Worm-men, although there is light in the bowels of the Earth, yet your Microscopes will do but little good there, by reason those Creatures that live under ground have not such an optick sense as those that live on the surface of the Earth: wherefore, unless you had such Glasses as are proper for their perception, your Microscopes will not be any ways advantagious to them.

The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668

Infinitely wise Creator has not left the creature without a power of moving the head a little in _Aerial crustaceous_ animals, and the very eyes also in _crustaceous_ Sea-animals; so that by these means they are inabled to direct some optick line or other against any object, and by that means they have the visive faculty as compleat as any Animal that can move its eyes.

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

Now, because it were impossible, even with this multitude of eye-balls, to see any object distinct (for as I hinted before, onely those parts that lay in, or very neer, the optick Lines could be so) the

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

_Hemisphere_, and that therefore each of them can distinctly sensate or see onely those parts which are very neer perpendicularly oppos'd to it, or lie in or neer its optick _Axis_.

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

_Retina_ of all the objects lying almost in an _Hemisphere_; yet, as in a man's eye also, there are but some very few points which liyng in, or neer, the optick _Axis_ are distinctly discern'd: So there may be multitudes of

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

Galileo's "optick tube" magnified a meagre nine-fold and was not even conceived for astronomy.

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Galileo's "optick tube" magnified a meagre nine-fold and was not even conceived for astronomy.

WN.com - Articles related to 400 Years of Modern Astronomy 2009

Galileo's "optick tube" magnified a meagre nine-fold and was not even conceived for astronomy.

WN.com - Articles related to 400 Years of Modern Astronomy 2009

Galileo's "optick tube" magnified a meager nine-fold and was not even conceived for astronomy.

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