Quest for the Invisible
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Quest for the Invisible
Microscopy in the Enlightenment
Ratcliff, Marc J.
Taylor & Francis Ltd
05/2009
332
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Inglês
9780754661504
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Contents: Introduction: reasons for a new historiography; Part 1 The Definition of Good Microscopical Objects 1680-1740: Production and visibility of microscopes in the first half of the 18th century; The study of animalcules at the turn of the 18th century; Insects, hermaphrodite and ambiguity. Part 2 The Break with the Past 1740-1760s: Towards marketing strategies for the microscope in the second half of the 18th century; Abraham Trembly, the polyp and new directions for microscopical research; The disputes over authority and microscopical observations. Part 3 Infusoria and Microscopical Experiments: The True Invisible Objects 1760s-1800s: The quantifying spirit in microscopical research and 'keeping up' with invisible objects; The emergence of the systematics of infusoria; From spontaneous generation to the limits of life: the microscopical experimentalist research from the 1760s to 1800; Conclusion; Bibliography; Indexes.
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Microscopical Research;Animal Kingdom;Small Scale Bodies;Journal De Physique;Vice Versa;Duc De Chaulnes;Instrument Makers;Compound Microscope;Microscopical Objects;Spontaneous Generation;Marine Zoology;Duhamel Du Monceau;Achromatic Microscopes;Microscopical Texts;Microscope Makers;Leeuwenhoek's Observations;La Hire;Natural History Tradition;Microscopical Bodies;Young Man;Animal Environment System;Technological Thesis;Cryptogam Species;Microscopical Report;Trembley's Polyp
Contents: Introduction: reasons for a new historiography; Part 1 The Definition of Good Microscopical Objects 1680-1740: Production and visibility of microscopes in the first half of the 18th century; The study of animalcules at the turn of the 18th century; Insects, hermaphrodite and ambiguity. Part 2 The Break with the Past 1740-1760s: Towards marketing strategies for the microscope in the second half of the 18th century; Abraham Trembly, the polyp and new directions for microscopical research; The disputes over authority and microscopical observations. Part 3 Infusoria and Microscopical Experiments: The True Invisible Objects 1760s-1800s: The quantifying spirit in microscopical research and 'keeping up' with invisible objects; The emergence of the systematics of infusoria; From spontaneous generation to the limits of life: the microscopical experimentalist research from the 1760s to 1800; Conclusion; Bibliography; Indexes.
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
Microscopical Research;Animal Kingdom;Small Scale Bodies;Journal De Physique;Vice Versa;Duc De Chaulnes;Instrument Makers;Compound Microscope;Microscopical Objects;Spontaneous Generation;Marine Zoology;Duhamel Du Monceau;Achromatic Microscopes;Microscopical Texts;Microscope Makers;Leeuwenhoek's Observations;La Hire;Natural History Tradition;Microscopical Bodies;Young Man;Animal Environment System;Technological Thesis;Cryptogam Species;Microscopical Report;Trembley's Polyp
