The quest for the invisible : microscopy in the Enlightenment / Marc J. Ratcliff.
Pubblicazione:
Aldershot : Ashgate, c2009.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of figures. List of charts and tables. Acknowledgments. List of abbreviations. Introduction: Reason for a new historiography. Pt. 1. 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. Pt. 2. The break with the past (1740-1760s): 4. Towards marketing strategies for the microscope in the second half of the eighteenth century 5. Abraham Trembley, the polyp and new directions for microscopical research 6. The disputes over authority and microscopical observations. Pt. 3. Infusoria and microscopical experiment: the true invisible objects (1760s-1800s): 7. The quantifying spirit in microscopical research and keeping up with invisible objects 8. The emergence of the systematics of infusoria 9. From spontaneous gneration to the limits of life: the microscopical experimentalist research from the 1760s to1800. Conclusion. Bibliography. Prosopographical index. Author index
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