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A zoologist’s perspective on Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665) studies of marine and terrestrial invertebrates, and his contemplations on invertebrate “generation” and mutability

Pages 1375-1411 | Received 04 Jul 2013, Accepted 14 Oct 2013, Published online: 25 Feb 2014

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