Microscopy and Eye-Testimony : the Example of Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek (1673-1723). This paper aims at presenting, through the study of the letters addressed by Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society in London, some of the characteristic features of "experimental philosophy" in its visual practice and in its discourse and its theoretical justifications. The stress is laid on the possibility to transmit through words an eye-testimony while preserving its "autoptical" quality, i.e. the force of conviction characteristic of what is given through a singular visual experience. The task is made even more arduous in the case of microscopy which introduces the mediation of a still rudimentary instrument, requires from the observer technical expertise and...
The Dutch merchant and naturalist Anton van Leeuwenhoek is considered to be the father of optic micr...
This essay revolves around Micrographia written by the English 17th century experimental philosopher...
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia of 1665 is an epochal work in the history of scientific representation....
Microscopy and Eye-Testimony : the Example of Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek (1673-1723). This paper aims ...
Although van Leeuwenhoek was not the inventor of the microscope, he advanced it more than anyone els...
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) war ein holländischer Autodidakt, dessen Mikroskope und vor allem...
This paper discusses the scientific instruments made and used by the microscopist Antony van Leeuwen...
This article provides, for the first time, an overview of all images (drawings and prints) sent by t...
Although not laying claim to being the inventor of the light microscope, Antonj van Leeuwenhoek (163...
This article examines comparisons Antoni van Leeuwenhoek made between everyday objects, such as grai...
The technique of neutron tomography has, after 350 years, enabled a first look inside the iconic sin...
Leeuwenhoek’s letters are good reading. They show us a man who was busily inquisitive about everythi...
Con frecuencia la Ciencia y la Técnica van de la mano. Casi todos los avances científicos han sido e...
Mit dem Mikroskop wurde in den 1620er Jahren ein neues Instrument in die Naturforschung eingeführt, ...
While historians of the microscope currently consider that no systematic programme of microscopy too...
The Dutch merchant and naturalist Anton van Leeuwenhoek is considered to be the father of optic micr...
This essay revolves around Micrographia written by the English 17th century experimental philosopher...
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia of 1665 is an epochal work in the history of scientific representation....
Microscopy and Eye-Testimony : the Example of Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek (1673-1723). This paper aims ...
Although van Leeuwenhoek was not the inventor of the microscope, he advanced it more than anyone els...
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) war ein holländischer Autodidakt, dessen Mikroskope und vor allem...
This paper discusses the scientific instruments made and used by the microscopist Antony van Leeuwen...
This article provides, for the first time, an overview of all images (drawings and prints) sent by t...
Although not laying claim to being the inventor of the light microscope, Antonj van Leeuwenhoek (163...
This article examines comparisons Antoni van Leeuwenhoek made between everyday objects, such as grai...
The technique of neutron tomography has, after 350 years, enabled a first look inside the iconic sin...
Leeuwenhoek’s letters are good reading. They show us a man who was busily inquisitive about everythi...
Con frecuencia la Ciencia y la Técnica van de la mano. Casi todos los avances científicos han sido e...
Mit dem Mikroskop wurde in den 1620er Jahren ein neues Instrument in die Naturforschung eingeführt, ...
While historians of the microscope currently consider that no systematic programme of microscopy too...
The Dutch merchant and naturalist Anton van Leeuwenhoek is considered to be the father of optic micr...
This essay revolves around Micrographia written by the English 17th century experimental philosopher...
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia of 1665 is an epochal work in the history of scientific representation....