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  1. Seeing and telling the invisible: problems of a new epistemic category in the second half of the eighteenth century.Nathalie Vuillemin - 2024 - Intellectual History Review 34 (2):389-400.
    The invisible object, in the eighteenth century, is not an evidence. It is the result of textual and semantic learning. Which concrete strategies are used to construct and depict objects out of sight? How do we make them a cognitive reality acceptable to a scientific community? This paper first highlights the conditions for the emergence of a field of microscopic knowledge and its epistemological consequences. Then we consider the microscopic gaze in terms of learning, situated between the act of observation (...)
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