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Jutta Schickore

The Microscope and the Eye

A History of Reflections, 1740-1870

320 pages, 16 halftones  6 x 9  © 2007

Cloth $40.00

ISBN: 9780226737843   Published November 2007

List of Illustrations
Introduction: The History of Microscopy, Vision Studies, and Scientific
Methodology

1. The Versatile Tool of Improvement
2. Encountering Optical Deceptions
3. Tools of Accuracy
4. Microscopic Fallacies, Peculiar Optical Deceptions, and the Eye’s Defects
5. Test Objects and the Pretensions, Defects, and Excellencies of Individual Microscopes
6. Johannes Müller and the Problem of “Subject-Object”
7. Bringing Physics to Anatomy
8. Handling Nervous Tissue and the Problem of Visual Acuity
9. The Microscope’s Retina
10. Writing on Microscopy

Conclusion: The Advance of Reflexive Concerns          
Acknowledgments       
Notes  
References      
Index
Subjects



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