The microscope and the eye:a history of reflections, 1740-1870
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University of Chicago Press,
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Publisher Address: | Chicago |
Publication Dates: | c2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | ix, 317 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780226737843 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226737845 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | TH742 |
CLC: | TH742-09 |
Call Number: | TH742-09/S331 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-309) and index. Introduction : The history of microscopy, vision studies, and scientific methodology -- The versatile tool of improvement -- Encountering optical deceptions -- Tools of accuracy -- Microscopical fallacies, peculiar optical deceptions, and the eye's defects -- Test objects and the pretensions, defects, and excellencies of individual microscopes -- Johannes Müller and the problem of 'subject-object' -- Bringing physics to anatomy -- Handling nervous tissue and the problem of visual acuity -- The microscope's retina -- Writing on microscopy -- Conclusion : The advanceof reflexive concerns. |