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