The Invisible World : : Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope / / Catherine Wilson.
In the seventeenth century the microscope opened up a new world of observation, and, according to Catherine Wilson, profoundly revised the thinking of scientists and philosophers alike. The interior of nature, once closed off to both sympathetic intuition and direct perception, was now accessible wi...
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Wilson, Catherine, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Invisible World : Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope / Catherine Wilson. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020] ©1995 1 online resource (290 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy ; 2 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Science and Protoscience -- 2. The Subtlety of Nature -- 3. Instruments and Applications -- 4. Preexistent and Emergent Form -- 5. Animalcula and the Theory of Animate Contagion -- 6. The Philosophers and the Microscope -- 7. The Microscope Superfluous and Uncertain -- 8. Truths and Appearances -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the seventeenth century the microscope opened up a new world of observation, and, according to Catherine Wilson, profoundly revised the thinking of scientists and philosophers alike. The interior of nature, once closed off to both sympathetic intuition and direct perception, was now accessible with the help of optical instruments. The microscope led to a conception of science as an objective, procedure-driven mode of inquiry and renewed interest in atomism and mechanism. Focusing on the earliest forays into microscopical research, from 1620 to 1720, this book provides us with both a compelling technological history and a lively assessment of the new knowledge that helped launch philosophy into the modern era. Wilson argues that the discovery of the microworld--and the apparent role of living animalcula in generation, contagion, and disease--presented metaphysicians with the task of reconciling the ubiquity of life with human-centered theological systems. It was also a source of problems for philosophers concerned with essences, qualities, and the limits of human knowledge, whose positions are echoed in current debates about realism and instrument-mediated knowledge. Covering the contributions of pioneering microscopists (Leeuwenhoek, Swammerdam, Malpighi, Grew, and Hooke) and the work of philosophers interested in the microworld (Bacon, Descartes, Leibniz, Malebranche, Locke, and Berkeley), she challenges historians who view the abstract sciences as the sole catalyst of the Scientific Revolution as she stresses the importance of observational and experimental science to the modern intellect. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) SCIENCE / History. bisacsh Accademia dei Lyncei. Alhazen. Bacon, Francis. Berkeley, George. Book of Nature. Collegium Curiosae. Copernicus. Digby, Kenelm. Divini, Eustachio. Fournier, Marian. Gregory. Hippocrates. Hutchison, Keith. Jungius, Joachim. Lucretius. Nero. Pasteur, Louis. air pump. ammalcula. analogy. atomism. bacteria. butterfly. caterpillar. charlatanry. corpuscularianism. dissection. effluvia. empiricism. experimentation. eyeglasses. fermentation. generation. gonorrhea. heliocentrism. iatromechanism. idealism. influenza. insects. knowledge, scientific. laboratory. lenses. magic. mathematics. mechanism. metamorphosis. myopia. mysticism. objectivity. occasionalism. ovism. pananimism. protozoa. qualities. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691221823?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691221823 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691221823.jpg |
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