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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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