The microscope in the Dutch Republic : the shaping of discovery

The Resource The microscope in the Dutch Republic : the shaping of discovery
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The microscope in the Dutch Republic : the shaping of discovery
Title remainder
the shaping of discovery
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Edward G. Ruestow
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Emphasizing the work of Jan Swammerdam and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, The Microscope in the Dutch Republic dissects the social, cultural, and emotional circumstances that shaped early microscopic discovery. Arguing that the aspects of seventeeth-century Dutch culture widely assumed to have favored the lens actually impeded its serious use, Ruestow focuses on social contexts and on Swammerdam and Leeuwenhoek's social sensibilities as the key source of their commitment to the new instrument. He also analyzes how they drew upon their cultural background to vest microscopic images with meaning, though with strikingly different emphases. Having underscored how their influential contributions to the debates over generation also illustrated the problematic role of early microscopic observations, Ruestow concludes with reflections on the eighteenth-century decline and the nineteenth-century resurgence of microscopic research and the impact of institutionalization."--BOOK JACKET
Cataloging source
DLC
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illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
QH204
LC item number
.R84 1996
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography

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