 | Charles Earl Mullin - Dyes and dyeing - 1927 - 490 pages
...great variety of very vivid colours, and to the naked eye it looked very like the substance of Silk. And I have often thought, that probably there might...resembling, if not full as good, nay better, than that Excrement, or whatever other substance it be out of which, the Silk- worm wire-draws his clew.... | |
 | Edward Wheeler - 0 - 1928 - 222 pages
...Institution (1), put forward as early as 1665 in Hooke's " Micrographia," where it was suggested that " there might be a way found out to make an artificial...resembling, if not full as good, nay better, than that excrement or whatever other substance it be out of which the silk-worm wiredraws his clew " (2).... | |
 | Menachem Lewin, Eli M. Pearce - Science - 1998 - 1122 pages
...fiber was attributed to Dr. Robert Hooke of London, who, in 1664, wrote in his book Micrographia [4]: And I have often thought that probably there might...much resembling if not full as good, nay better, than that Excrement, or whatever other substance it be out of which, the silkworm wire-draws his clew. If... | |
 | Stephen L. Sass - History - 1998 - 332 pages
...Hooke speculated in his work Micrographia about the possibilities of obtaining artificial silk: 229 And I have often thought that probably there might be a way ... to make an artificial glutinous composition resembling, if not full as good, nay better, than the... | |
 | Susannah Handley - Business & Economics - 1999 - 204 pages
...produced fibres. In his book Micrographia, published in 1 664, he described how it should be possible to make 'an artificial glutinous composition, much resembling, if not full as good, nay better, than that excrement, or whatever other substance it be out of which the silkworm wire-draws his clew'. '-... | |
 | Steven Vogel - Science - 1998 - 388 pages
...analogous extrusion process. Hooke viewed silk as "a dried thread of glue" and casually speculated "that probably there might be a way found out, to...resembling, if not full as good, nay better, than that excrement, or whatever other substance it be out of which, the silkworm wiredraws his clew. If... | |
 | Herbert Morawetz - Science - 2002 - 328 pages
...his Micrographia, published by the Royal Society in 1665. This book contains the following passage:* And I have often thought that probably there might be a way ... to make an artificial glutinous composition resembling, if not full as good, nay better, than that... | |
 | Robert Hooke - Magnifying glasses - 2007 - 381 pages
...naked eye, k look'4 very like the ftbftance of the Silk. And I have often thought, that pro* bably there might be a way found out, to make an artificial glutinous competition, much refembling, if not full as good, nay better, then that Excrement,Or whatever other... | |
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And I have often thought, that probably there might be a way found out, to make an artificial glutinous composition, much resembling, if not full as good, nay better, than that Excrement, or whatever other substance it be out of which, the Silk- worm... 