Microscopic view of silk and taffeta Product:Fine art poster Henry Fawcett

Henry Fawcett

From 1983-1988 1

Procession of HRH Albert Edward Prince of Wales

Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) American mathematician was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1818

Head and shoulders portrait in clerical dress

Microscopic view of silk and taffeta Product:Fine art poster Henry FawcettIllustrations showing microscopic views of: fine waled silk, or taffeta (Fig. 1); watered silk (Fig. 2); the bending of individual silk threads (Figs. 3 and 4). Schem. III from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon, by Robert Hooke (London, 1665). Original: copperplate engraving. 1665