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  1. Atomism, Lynceus, and the Fate of Seventeenth-Century Microscopy.C. H. Lüthy - 1996 - Early Science and Medicine 1 (1):1-27.
    Recent scholarship, focusing on the rapid decline of microscopy after the late 1680's, has shown that the limitations of microscopy and the ambivalent meaning of its findings led to a wide-spread sense of frustration with the new instrument. The present article tries to connect this fall from favor with the microscope's equally surprising but hitherto little noticed late rise to prominence. The crucial point is that when the microscope, more than a decade after the telescope, finally managed to arouse the (...)
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  • Effluvia, Action at a Distance, and the Challenge of the Third Causal Model.Silvia Parigi - 2015 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29 (4):351-368.
    In the early modern age, two causal models are clearly identifiable: action at a distance—a typical Renaissance paradigm, widespread among thinkers involved in natural magic and seventeenth-century Neoplatonists—and action by contact, on which both the Aristotelians and the Cartesians agreed. Pierre Gassendi too seems to endorse the motto: ‘Nihil agit in distans nisi prius agit in medium’ [Nothing acts at a distance unless it acts through a medium]. In this essay, it will be shown that a third causal model exists, (...)
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  • " Das letzte Blatt im Buch der Natur"-Die Wirklichkeit der Atome und die Antinomie der Anschauung in den Korpuskulartheorien der frühen Neuzeit.Christoph Meinel - 1988 - Studia Leibnitiana 20:1-18.
    Le présent article éclaire le contexte empirique et argumentatif du développement de la théorie corpusculaire de la matière au 17 e siècle. Dans le cadre d'une conception unitaire de la nature l'hypothèse atomique livra une description imagée des phénomènes en deça du perceptible à l'instar du monde visible. Cependant, tant sur le plan de la méthodologie empirique que sur celui de l'épistémologie, ces analogies n'étaient pas sans poser des problèmes. Différents arguments ont concouru à leur légitimation, mais aussi à leur (...)
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  • Bears in Eden, or, this is not the garden you're looking for: Margaret Cavendish, Robert Hooke and the limits of natural philosophy.Ian Lawson - 2015 - British Journal for the History of Science 48 (4):583-605.
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