abstract:Micrographia is abnormally small, cramped handwriting and/or the progression to continually smaller handwriting. This is one of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
Robert Hooke, 1635-1703 worked at the forefront of physics, astronomy, microscopy, physiology and geology and published the first fully illustrated scientific textbook, Micrographia.
Hooke himself was a talented illustrator, evidenced by his impressive copper-plated illustrations of a flea, which opens to four times the size of a page in Micrographia.