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
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