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The microscope and the eye : a history of reflections, 1740-1870
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- Creator
- Jutta Schickore
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- ix, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226737843, 0226737845
- OCLC
- ocm84152911
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-309) and index.
- The versatile tool of improvement -- Encountering optical deceptions -- Tools of accuracy -- Microscopic 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
Subjects
- Microscopy -- History -- 18th century.
- Microscopy -- History -- 19th century.
- Microscopy -- history.
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- Eye -- anatomy & histology.
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- History, 18th Century.
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- History, 19th Century.
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- Microscopy -- instrumentation.
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