The quest for the invisible: microscopy in the Enlightenment
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1. Verfasser: Ratcliff, Marc (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham, England Ashgate Pub. ©2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-291) and indexes
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Charts and Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Reasons for a New Historiography; Part I: The Definition of Good Microscopical Objects 1680-1740; 1 Production and Visibility of Microscopes in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century; 2 The Study of Animalcules at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century; 3 Insects, Hermaphrodites and Ambiguity; Part II: The Break with the Past 1740-1760s; 4 Towards Marketing Strategies for the Microscope in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
This study offers a definitive account of the state of microscopy in the eighteenth century, of the main concerns of those involved in the field and how microscopists learned to communicate their findings to each other. It will be essential reading for all historians of microscopy and for those studying life sciences of the modern period
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 315 pages)
ISBN:9780754690061
0754690067
9780754661504
0754661504

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