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The quest for the invisible microscopy in the Enlightenment

Marc Ratcliff

Localização: IB - Instituto de Biociências (QH205 R233q )(Acessar)

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The quest for the invisible microscopy in the Enlightenment
Autor: Marc Ratcliff
Assuntos: Microscopy -- History -- 18th century; Microscopy -- history; History, 17th Century; History, 18th Century; Mikroskopie; MICROSCOPIA (HISTÓRIA); BIOLOGIA (HISTÓRIA)
Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-291) and indexes.
Descrição: Production and visibility of microscopes in the first half of the eighteenth century -- The study of Animalcules at the turn of the eighteenth century -- Insects, hermaphrodites and ambiguity -- Towards marketing strategies for the microscope in the second half of the eighteenth century -- Abraham Trembley, the polyp and new directions for microscopical research -- The disputes over authority and microscopical observations -- 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.
Editor: Farnham, England Ashgate Pub. Burlington, VT
Data de criação/publicação: c2009
Formato: xii, 315 p ill. 25 cm..
Idioma: Inglês

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