MICROGRAPHIA catches its prey-
a spider's fate enlarged upon...
a mini-drama commemorating...what,
exactly? The spider is 'small...
grey...prettily bespecked with
black spots...' which Hooke, the
17th century micro-experimentalist
texturizes as 'feathers...like butterflies'
wings, or the body of the white moth.'
Next, our 1665 observer suddenly catches
his lens-magnified subject 'setting itself
on its hinder legs',
