tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173453322997227658.post5027896266553132866..comments2023-10-24T04:05:24.108-04:00Comments on The Bluestocking Belle: Serendipitous ScienceEllen, the Bluestocking Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328085786533131608noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173453322997227658.post-11639678530722991982012-09-25T21:35:20.334-04:002012-09-25T21:35:20.334-04:00Thanks for the links, Tanya! I know I'll check...Thanks for the links, Tanya! I know I'll check them out, but I can't promise the girls will follow suit. HA!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173453322997227658.post-87722104049508204792012-09-25T18:38:59.022-04:002012-09-25T18:38:59.022-04:00This is great, Ellen. In the seventeenth century ...This is great, Ellen. In the seventeenth century Robert Hooke and others were doing just the same: looking at the new worlds opened up to them through the telescope and debating abiology, or the spontaneous generation of life from putrefied matter. Obviously this was a theological as well as a scientific debate. There is some amazing stuff on Hooker and the images he drew (which made his work famous) online:<br />http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/hooke.html<br />and a digital copy of his Micrographia, which is much more impressive in real life (the local library might have copy):<br />http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/hooke/hooke.htmlScotland Spring Break 2020https://www.blogger.com/profile/13623437909093043135noreply@blogger.com