The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope by Catherine Wilson

The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope

Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosoph

Catherine Wilson

280 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science informative medium-paced
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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 i...

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