The posthumous works of Robert Hooke containing his Cutlerian lectures and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society : ... to these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as curator of experiments to the Royal Society
A 1705 posthumous collection of Robert Hooke's Royal Society lectures and discourses, edited by Richard Waller and printed in London for the Royal Society's scientific readership. Its pages are dense engraved plates of geometric diagrams, optical and mechanical apparatus, and cross-section drawings, with fine hatching, lettered reference points, and tapering cones and cylinders that a designer could use for technical line-art motifs and diagrammatic layouts.
