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microscopy: the cellular universe
The development of the microscope slowly introduced, from
the 17th Century, a new instrument for biological observation
that came to allow diving into the knowledge of microscopic
organic structure. The obstacles and technical challenges
were constant in the journey from tissue microscopy theorizing
on fibres until the revelation of the cellular universe that
established the cell as the basic physiological and pathological
unit.
Microscopes, simple and complex, achromatic lenses, new techniques
of lighting, photographic cameras or microphotography are
but some of the technological devices and aspects characterizing
an experimentalist medicine which gradually imposed a new
place of production of knowledge, the laboratory, and which
are represented in the Museum collection.
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