The invisible world : early modern philosophy and the invention of the microscope
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The invisible world : early modern philosophy and the invention of the microscope
(Studies in intellectual history and the history of philosophy / M.A. Stewart and David Fate Norton, editors)
Princeton University Press, c1995
- : hbk
- : pbk
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注記
Bibliography: p. [257]-272
Includes index
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In the 17th 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 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-centred 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), this study challenges historians who view the abstract sciences as the sole catalyst of the Scientific Revolution.
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