The microscope and the eye : a history of reflections, 1740-1870 / Jutta Schickore.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

ix, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-309) and index.

The versatile tool of improvement -- Encountering optical deceptions -- Tools of accuracy -- Microscopic fallacies, peculiar optical deceptions, and the eye's defects -- Test objects and the pretensions, defects, and excellencies of individual microscopes -- Johannes Müller and the problem of 'subject-object' -- Bringing physics to anatomy -- Handling nervous tissue and the problem of visual acuity -- The microscope's retina -- Writing on microscopy.