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The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the MicroscopeCatherine Wilson Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995, x + 280 pp., $39.50

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The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope Catherine Wilson Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995, x + 280 pp., $39.50

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Margaret Atherton
Margaret Atherton
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University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , Summer 1998 , pp. 650 - 653
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1998

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1 For a recent account of this problem, see Shapin, Steven, The Scientific Revolution (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Consider Malebranche's discussion of size perception in The Search after Truth, Bk. 1, Chap. 6.