History Weblecture for Unit 25
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Lecture outline:
We've looked at methods of identifying scientific information and organizing it as part of the divisio scientiarum. We've discussed how changes in artistic conventions and perspective developed into new ways to document scientific observations and present information for education and reference. Now we turn to the development of an instrument that would prove useful for biology in particular by extending the range of possible observations to the very, very small.
[6 pages total, with graphics.]
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