The Quest for the Invisible: Microscopy in the EnlightenmentAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2009 - 315 pages Presents an account of the state of research into microscopy of the eighteenth century. This book connects changes in instrument design to an account of microscopical research during the eighteenth century and the rich social networks of communication that grew during this period. |
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Contents
Reasons for a New Historiography | 1 |
The Definition of Good Microscopical Objects 16801740 | 11 |
Production and Visibility of Microscopes in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century | 13 |
The Study of Animalcules at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century | 33 |
Insects Hermaphrodites and Ambiguity | 57 |
The Break with the Past 17401760s | 75 |
Towards Marketing Strategies for the Microscope in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century | 77 |
Abraham Trembley the Polyp and New Directions for Microscopical Research | 103 |
The Disputes over Authority and Microscopical Observations | 125 |
Infusoria and Microscopical Experiments The True Invisible Objects 1760s1800s | 147 |
The Quantifying Spirit in Microscopical Research and Keeping Up with Invisible Objects | 149 |
The Emergence of the Systematics of Infusoria | 177 |
From Spontaneous Generation to the Limits of Life The Microscopical Experimentalist Research from the 1760s to 1800 | 217 |
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