The Reason of making Experiments is, for the Discovery of the Method of Nature, in its Progress and Operations."

Micrographia is a landmark in human literature, the first book to include illustrations of organisms (such as insects and plants) through microscopes, the first major book released by the Royal Society, the first popscience book (definitely the first bestseller in science). And, perhaps most surprisingly, the book that first used the term 'cell'.

"The most ingenious book that ever I read in my life."
Samuel Pepys