The microscope and the eye : a history of reflections, 1740-1870 / Jutta Schickore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schickore, Jutta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microscopy--History--18th century.

Microscopy.

Microscopy--History--19th century.

Microscopy--history.

Eye--anatomy & histology.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

Microscopy--instrumentation.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Microscopy--history.

Eye--anatomy & histology.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

Microscopy--instrumentation.

Physical Description:

ix, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-309) and index.

ISBN:

9780226737843

0226737845

OCLC:

84152911

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