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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 50–75.
Published: 01 January 2019
... by microscopy; and (2) the fragmentation of scientific knowledge through putatively social but unrealizable and unrepeatable experiments, exemplified by the microscope and compensated for by the sociality of manuscript verse. As such, “A Farewell to Poetry” is not about anatomy per se; “A Farewell to Poetry...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 63–92.
Published: 01 January 2014
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associated with the new science — the microscope — and finds in it a meta-
phor for how human nature might be represented in the course of every-
day life. The Tatler 119 is devoted to the “curious discoveries that have been
made with the help of microscopes,” which enabled the viewer to pry...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 158–177.
Published: 01 September 2021
... as 1709, an advertisement in the Ladies Diary promoted “True Spectacles” approved by the Royal Society and double microscopes “for viewing the circulation of the Blood in Fishes.” 22 The acceptability of microscopy as a ladies’ subject, and some men's support of that pursuit, is demonstrated...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 107–134.
Published: 01 September 2006
... acts involved
a “Solar Microscope” that projected onto a screen an assortment of insects,
magnified to fantastical size.15 An advertisement from the mid 1780s,
which included a poem addressed to “Doctor Caterpillar,” declared that
Katterfelto would “shew in a drop of clear water (the size...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 120–137.
Published: 01 April 2008
... but careful and interesting experiments
on his own vision.23
Another of the Society’s correspondents was Antony van Leeuwenhoek.
Though from a family of tradesmen and not university educated, Van Leeu-
wenhoek made observations with the microscope that were important to
the Society over a long...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 81–89.
Published: 01 January 2008
...), was environmentally a generally familiar
place. But that was not the situation prior to a couple of billion years ago,
when Earth’s atmosphere was nearly devoid of free oxygen. Even though
microscopic life existed then too, Earth was an environmentally very
different, extremely unfamiliar...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2018
... attempting
to “put successive generations of the entire professional population between
and
under the microscope.”12 The third, standing at the intersec-
tion of these two elds, though requiring a narrowing of focus and disci-
plinary shift, is the literary study of family-produced texts...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 23–48.
Published: 01 April 2003
...
at will, swooping in and out of particular events, sometimes adopting a
microscopic approach, and sometimes a telescopic view.67 As his vision
enlarges so the characters in the narrative are progressively diminished (as
Virginia Woolf observed);68 and his characterizations of them become
briefer and more...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 88–118.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., that “history might be less comprehensible from a lofty vista than
from beneath the narrowing lens of a microscope.”29 Wolcot’s own position
of course tends in the other direction in terms of its conclusions, focusing
on the potentially negative consequences of the “narrowing lens.” Yet it is
important...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 83–95.
Published: 01 April 2002
...
of change than can be found by a microscopic inspection of print shops and
booksellers: Siskin is interested in “the entire configuration of writing, print,
and silent reading” (p. 32), as well as the nascent conception of mental work
that gave professionals, including...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 133–147.
Published: 01 January 2021
...). This chapter is loaded with textual examples and fine- toothed analyses, not all of which clarify this extremely difficult point. But Thompson does point to several clear examples of Locke s positive evaluation of analogy as a legitimate mode of describing matter. One involves a man with Microscopical Eyes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 60–75.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of the wonder of
fi rst encounters. In general, these facts accumulate passively, without inter-
pretation or even much of an organizing logic. Rogers keeps a studied dis-
tance from the objects of description, presenting them as though through
a telescope or microscope, and thereby reducing what must have...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 66–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
... to the infinitesimal and microscopic while actually adding layers of mediation between viewer and viewed. 18 Suggestively, Goodman also has in mind linguistic instruments, such as John Wilkins's proposed universal language, aimed at developing a less mediated language system but instead adding obscuring layers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., and glazes, as well as developments in the modern art market. 29 Others point out how scientific, microscopic modes of viewing the world are replicated in the genre, or else emphasize the way that these paintings depict the stuff of everyday life and its role in structuring reality. More recently, critics...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 97–118.
Published: 01 January 2013
...-Century Life
the Lice crawling on their Clothes. I could see distinctly the Limbs of
these Vermin with my naked Eye, much better than those of an European
Louse through a Microscope, and their Snouts with which they rooted
like Swine. They were the first I had ever beheld, and I...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 111–127.
Published: 01 April 2000
... began beneath the waves” (ll.
233–34) in microscopic form after a spontaneous birth. A mere six lines then
capture evolution:
115
Firm forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
Move on the mud, or pierce...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 44–75.
Published: 01 September 2005
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and delight.”24 As a rule, a mechanical-physical cabinet contained, in addi-
tion to astronomical and nautical instruments, telescopes and microscopes,
and various measuring instruments, including the apparatus for a series of
spectacular chemical, physical, and mechanical experiments that the owner...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 29–59.
Published: 01 September 2007
... c developments that
furthered the birth control movement was the 1927 discovery by two Ger-
man physiologists, Bernard Zondek and S. Ascheim, of a sex hormone that
would lead to the fi rst early pregnancy test. In 1930, scientists saw a human
egg cell through a microscope for the fi rst time...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 30–62.
Published: 01 September 2023
... practitioners had very little relevance for culture at large—Boyle's weighing air and Hooke's microscope observations, as Coppola contends, were often the subject of scathing satirical plays—whereas Newton's ideas were immediately made a matter of national pride. See Coppola, Theater of Experiment , chapter 1...
