There was no significance of Rappe of Nanking. they just want to show what power they though they had.
The British, for example, admired the tomato for its beauty, but believe that it was poisonous, as its appearance was similar to that of the wolf peach.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although you forgot to include the sketches and the options of the question, we can say the following.
Robert Hooke, a famous 17th-century English scientist, published a book of sketches such as the one above. The recent invention that made these observations possible was the microscope.
Robert Hooke was an English scientist who wrote the treatise called "Micrographia." In this work, he helped design a modern microscope for that time with better lenses and improved optical characteristics that facilitated scientific research. In the end, it was Christopher C*ck, the one who fabricated the new microscope.
What was the question? I didn’t quite understand
