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micrographia

Noun

Meaning

micrographia (uncountable)

The condition of having small handwriting, sometimes a symptom of Parkinson's disease and related conditions.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

HookeMicro Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon. Source: Internet

Micrographia also contains Hooke's, or perhaps Boyle and Hooke's, ideas on combustion. Source: Internet

Wave theory To explain the origin of colors, Robert Hooke (1635-1703) developed a "pulse theory" and compared the spreading of light to that of waves in water in his 1665 work Micrographia ("Observation IX"). Source: Internet

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