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Louisiane Ferlier shares her excitement at the launch of the Royal Society's digital version of Robert Hooke’s classic book 'Micrographia' (1665).

As our copy of Robert Hooke's 'Micrographia' goes off for conservation, we look at the printing history behind the book's iconic images.

Keith Moore takes a close look at the work of extraordinary microscope artists, from Robert Hooke to Philip Henry Gosse and John Denis Macdonald.

Felicity Henderson admires Robert Hooke's 'Micrographia' (1665), praised by Samuel Pepys as 'the most ingenious book that ever I read in my life'.

The story of the first British flea circus, in 1743, can be seen in a document from the Society’s archives.