<Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> The Royal Society </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> January 1665 </Td> </Tr> <P> Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses . With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon . is a historically significant book by Robert Hooke about his observations through various lenses . It is particularly notable for being the first book to illustrate insects, plants etc. as seen through microscopes . Published in January 1665, the first major publication of the Royal Society, it became the first scientific best - seller, inspiring a wide public interest in the new science of microscopy . It is also notable for coining the biological term cell . </P> <P> Hooke most famously describes a fly's eye and a plant cell (where he coined that term because plant cells, which are walled, reminded him of the cells in a honeycomb). Known for its spectacular copperplate engravings of the miniature world, particularly its fold - out plates of insects, the text itself reinforces the tremendous power of the new microscope . The plates of insects fold out to be larger than the large folio itself, the engraving of the louse in particular folding out to four times the size of the book . Although the book is best known for demonstrating the power of the microscope, Micrographia also describes distant planetary bodies, the wave theory of light, the organic origin of fossils, and other philosophical and scientific interests of its author . </P>

Who wrote his description of cork cells in micrographia