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Micrographia 13That the root of the Hairs were pretty smooth, tapering inwards, almost

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Micrographia 13

That the root of the Hairs were pretty smooth, tapering inwards, almost

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like a Parsneb; nor could I find that it had any filaments, or any other vessels, such as the fibres of Plants.
5. That the top when split (which is common in long Hair) appear’d like the end of a stick, beaten till it be all flitter’d, there being not onely two splinters, but sometimes half a score and more.

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Hooke — Micrographia (Robert Hooke) (1665). Public Domain. Robert Hooke, Micrographia; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #15491. Source

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Micrographia 14

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