Micrographia nova: sive nova & curiosa variorum minutorum corporum singularis cujusdam & noviter

...the surface area is enlarged 10,000 times in length, and if you multiply this cubically by 10,000, you arrive at 100,000. However, if I consider the entire surface area, that is, the whole space or surrounding circle, which is composed of four full and eight semi-diameters (for this is how many my new microscope encompasses), they represent eight squares. If a single square is counted superficially by 10,000, it will give you 800,000 squares; and according to the solidity of the body, when multiplied by 800,000, it results in 8,000,000, a magnitude that increases to many millions of millions.

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