Fleas have appeared in poetry, literature, music and art; these include Robert Hooke's drawing of a flea under the microscope in his pioneering book " Micrographia " published in 1665, poems by Donne and Jonathan Swift, works of music by Giorgio Federico Ghedini and Modest Mussorgsky, a play by Georges Feydeau, a film by Charlie Chaplin, and paintings by artists such as Giuseppe Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and Georges de La Tour.
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For example : " all of " Micrographia's " observations contain a phrase such as'being look'd upon with a " Microscope " . . . by always italicizing the new word'microscope,'Hooke emphasized the instrument's presence at the scene of disciplined seeing . " Additionally : " Hooke often enclosed the objects he presented within a round frame, thus offering viewers an evocation of the experience of looking through the lens of a microscope ."
