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	'''Pepys''' buys microscope, Power's ''Experimental Philosophy'', and Hooke's ''Micrographia''; records many conversations on it during 1664-6 (169-170)		'''Pepys''' buys microscope, Power's ''Experimental Philosophy'', and Hooke's ''Micrographia''; records many conversations on it during 1664-6 (169-170)

	'''Abraham Cowley''', "To the Royal Society" [[http://etext.virginia.edu/kinney/works/RoyalSociety.htm]]		'''Abraham Cowley''', "To the Royal Society" ([http://etext.virginia.edu/kinney/works/RoyalSociety.htm])

	::Nature's great Workes no distance can obscure,		::Nature's great Workes no distance can obscure,

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	:"The God of the 'new science' is, secondly, like created Nature, a Deity superabundant, prolific, pouring Himself forth with unrestraining hand, expressing everywhere His creative power in a world of minutiae, in a universe of innumerable species." (224)		:"The God of the 'new science' is, secondly, like created Nature, a Deity superabundant, prolific, pouring Himself forth with unrestraining hand, expressing everywhere His creative power in a world of minutiae, in a universe of innumerable species." (224)

			Pascal: "A reed only is man, the frailest in the world, but a reed that thinks." (see pg 228)

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	:"several, even of the most solid Bodies, are nothing but an immense swarm of imperceptible Animals. ... In short, '''every thing is animated, and the Stones upon Salisbury Plain are as much alive as a Hive of Bees.'''" (214)		:"several, even of the most solid Bodies, are nothing but an immense swarm of imperceptible Animals. ... In short, '''every thing is animated, and the Stones upon Salisbury Plain are as much alive as a Hive of Bees.'''" (214)

	'''Henry Power''', "In Commendation of the Microscope"		'''Henry Power''', "In Commendation of the Microscope"; manuscript version [[http://books.google.com/books?id=1f8UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA824&dq=%22in+commendation+of+the+microscope%22+catalogue&hl=en&ei=CjdbTMu7NYKB8gbgkpjTAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false]]

	== c18, mentions of microscopy in literature ==		== c18, mentions of microscopy in literature ==

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	:"several, even of the most solid Bodies, are nothing but an immense swarm of imperceptible Animals. ... In short, '''every thing is animated, and the Stones upon Salisbury Plain are as much alive as a Hive of Bees.'''" (214)		:"several, even of the most solid Bodies, are nothing but an immense swarm of imperceptible Animals. ... In short, '''every thing is animated, and the Stones upon Salisbury Plain are as much alive as a Hive of Bees.'''" (214)

			'''Henry Power''', "In Commendation of the Microscope"

	== c18, mentions of microscopy in literature ==		== c18, mentions of microscopy in literature ==

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	== plant/animal distinction ==		== plant/animal distinction ==

	chain of being being disrupted, added to		''plenum formarum''; chain of being being disrupted, added to

	(see Fontenelle section for quote)		(see Fontenelle section for quote)
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	'''quires quote from Grew first appeared as preface to ''Anatomy of Vegetables'', 1672''' (214-5)		'''quires quote from Grew first appeared as preface to ''Anatomy of Vegetables'', 1672''' (214-5)

	[[Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, III.vi.12]] -- proto-evolution; suggests only gradations of difference between species, and between plants and animals		[[Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, III.vi.12]] -- proto-evolution; suggests only gradations of difference between species, and between plants and animals; there are "no gaps in nature"

			Leibniz; compossibles, law of continuity

			:"In the new universe the scale of nature, once fixed and determined, was expanding beyond sight, thought not beyond the possibility of proof." (220)

			:"The God of the 'new science' is, secondly, like created Nature, a Deity superabundant, prolific, pouring Himself forth with unrestraining hand, expressing everywhere His creative power in a world of minutiae, in a universe of innumerable species." (224)

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	'''quires quote from Grew first appeared as preface to ''Anatomy of Vegetables'', 1672''' (214-5)		'''quires quote from Grew first appeared as preface to ''Anatomy of Vegetables'', 1672''' (214-5)

	[[Locke, Essay Concerning Human ~~understanding, III.vi.12\|Locke, Essay~~, III.vi.12]] -- proto-evolution; suggests only gradations of difference between species, and between plants and animals		[[Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, III.vi.12]] -- proto-evolution; suggests only gradations of difference between species, and between plants and animals

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	'''quires quote from Grew first appeared as preface to ''Anatomy of Vegetables'', 1672''' (214-5)		'''quires quote from Grew first appeared as preface to ''Anatomy of Vegetables'', 1672''' (214-5)

	[[Locke, ''Essay Concerning Human understanding'', III.vi.12\|Locke, Essay, III.vi.12]] -- proto-evolution; suggests only gradations of difference between species, and between plants and animals		[[Locke, Essay Concerning Human understanding, III.vi.12\|Locke, Essay, III.vi.12]] -- proto-evolution; suggests only gradations of difference between species, and between plants and animals

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	'''quires quote from Grew first appeared as preface to ''Anatomy of Vegetables'', 1672''' (214-5)		'''quires quote from Grew first appeared as preface to ''Anatomy of Vegetables'', 1672''' (214-5)

	[[Locke, ''Essay Concerning Human understanding'', III.vi.12]] -- proto-evolution; suggests only gradations of difference between species, and between plants and animals		[[Locke, ''Essay Concerning Human understanding'', III.vi.12\|Locke, Essay, III.vi.12]] -- proto-evolution; suggests only gradations of difference between species, and between plants and animals

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	''natural'' vs. ''artificial'': John Wilkins, 1678, noting that the perfection of nature can never be rivalled by art, repeating Hooke's idea that sharpest needle looks crooked under a microscope (205)		''natural'' vs. ''artificial'': John Wilkins, 1678, noting that the perfection of nature can never be rivalled by art, repeating Hooke's idea that sharpest needle looks crooked under a microscope (205)

			== plant/animal distinction ==

			chain of being being disrupted, added to

			(see Fontenelle section for quote)

			:"Scientists and lyamen were interested in every form of life in the scale of being, not only in the place of Man and God (a main theme of the theodicies of the period), but in the relationship of animals to man, to other animals, to plants. Gradually the scientists became convinced that ''Natura non facit saltus''. there is no point at which animal life necessarily ceases and vegetable begins. Malpighi's studies of plant life, and Nehemiah Grew's discovery of the sex of plants marked a new chapter not only in biology but in philosophy and theology." (214)

			'''quires quote from Grew first appeared as preface to ''Anatomy of Vegetables'', 1672''' (214-5)

			[[Locke, ''Essay Concerning Human understanding'', III.vi.12]] -- proto-evolution; suggests only gradations of difference between species, and between plants and animals

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	::And well begun her deepest Sense to Understand.		::And well begun her deepest Sense to Understand.

	'''Samuel Butler''', "The Elephant in the Moon" [[http://proxy.lib.duke.edu:2214/searchFulltext.do?id=Z000293315&divLevel=0&queryId=&area=Poetry&forward=textsFT&print=No&warn=Yes&size=676Kb]]		'''Samuel Butler''', "The Elephant in the Moon" ([http://proxy.lib.duke.edu:2214/searchFulltext.do?id=Z000293315&divLevel=0&queryId=&area=Poetry&forward=textsFT&print=No&warn=Yes&size=676Kb])
	* about a society of men gathering to look through a telescope and see curious men on the moon		* about a society of men gathering to look through a telescope and see curious men on the moon
	* includes satire of microscopists: "one, whose Task was to determin / And solve th' Appearances of Vermin; / Wh' had made profound Discoveries / In Frogs, and Toads, and Rats, and Mice"		* includes satire of microscopists: "one, whose Task was to determin / And solve th' Appearances of Vermin; / Wh' had made profound Discoveries / In Frogs, and Toads, and Rats, and Mice"
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	::He must have more then eies that reads it cleare.		::He must have more then eies that reads it cleare.
	* (couldn't find this poem in the first published edition of Butler's collected works (1759) -- only the 1928 collection; misattributed?)		* (couldn't find this poem in the first published edition of Butler's collected works (1759) -- only the 1928 collection; misattributed?)
	* Other than ''Hudibras'', Butler's poems not published until 1759; [[http://proxy.lib.duke.edu:2087/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW3311002890&source=gale&userGroupName=duke_perkins&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE]~~] [~~[http://proxy.lib.duke.edu:2087/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW3311950411&source=gale&userGroupName=duke_perkins&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE]]		* Other than ''Hudibras'', Butler's poems not published until 1759; ([http://proxy.lib.duke.edu:2087/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW3311002890&source=gale&userGroupName=duke_perkins&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE])
			([http://proxy.lib.duke.edu:2087/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW3311950411&source=gale&userGroupName=duke_perkins&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE])

	'''Andrew Marvell''', "Last Instructions to a Painter"		'''Andrew Marvell''', "Last Instructions to a Painter"
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	::To see a tall Lowse brandish the white Staff.		::To see a tall Lowse brandish the white Staff.

	"Upon Appleton House" [[http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/appleton.htm]]		"Upon Appleton House" ([http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/appleton.htm])

	::Such Fleas, ere they approach the Eye,		::Such Fleas, ere they approach the Eye,
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	::I was but an inverted Tree.		::I was but an inverted Tree.

	'''Thomas Shadwell''', ''Virtuoso'' [[http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/eprosed/eprosed-idx?coll=eprosed;idno=P2.0865]]		'''Thomas Shadwell''', ''Virtuoso'' ([http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/eprosed/eprosed-idx?coll=eprosed;idno=P2.0865])
	* Sir Nicholas Gimcrack has a an "Elaboratory" with many instruments, including the microscope; looks at insects, etc.		* Sir Nicholas Gimcrack has a an "Elaboratory" with many instruments, including the microscope; looks at insects, etc.
	* '''Joseph Addison''', "Will of a Virtuoso" published in 1710 continues satire; Gimcrack dies, leaves all his pointless items to his friends/family; elsewhere, Addison admires the microscope, seems to direct his satire toward collecting (177)		* '''Joseph Addison''', "Will of a Virtuoso" published in 1710 continues satire; Gimcrack dies, leaves all his pointless items to his friends/family; elsewhere, Addison admires the microscope, seems to direct his satire toward collecting (177)
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	:"Shadwell's ''Virtuoso'' was a prelude to an outburst of mingled irony and enthusiasm for such themes. On the one hand, we hear persistent laughter at 'collectors' whose 'rare specimens' of mean and insignificant objects seemed to the age fantastical and absurd; on the other, there is a new interest in anatomical dissection under the microscope, impressing even those who laughed at the devotees." (Nicolson 173)		:"Shadwell's ''Virtuoso'' was a prelude to an outburst of mingled irony and enthusiasm for such themes. On the one hand, we hear persistent laughter at 'collectors' whose 'rare specimens' of mean and insignificant objects seemed to the age fantastical and absurd; on the other, there is a new interest in anatomical dissection under the microscope, impressing even those who laughed at the devotees." (Nicolson 173)

	'''Ned Ward'', 1698		'''Ned Ward''', 1698
	* visited Gresham College, home of the Royal Society; called it "Maggot-Monger's Hall"		* visited Gresham College, home of the Royal Society; called it "Maggot-Monger's Hall"
	* thought the collection was so worthless he immediately left to visit an insane asylum instead		* thought the collection was so worthless he immediately left to visit an insane asylum instead
	* satirical description of the "character of the virtuoso"		* satirical description of the "character of the virtuoso"

	'''William King''		'''William King'''
	* satirized "journies" of Samuel Sorbiere and Martin Lister through the character of "Mr. Shuttleworth", a virtuoso collector who shows "rarities" (snails, frogs, etc.) (174)		* satirized "journies" of Samuel Sorbiere and Martin Lister through the character of "Mr. Shuttleworth", a virtuoso collector who shows "rarities" (snails, frogs, etc.) (174)
	* Ninth Dialoge of ''Dialogues of the Dead'' contains "Moderno," a character who is dirty from digging in ditches for insects and tadpoles to examine; mentions Swammerdam		* Ninth Dialoge of ''Dialogues of the Dead'' contains "Moderno," a character who is dirty from digging in ditches for insects and tadpoles to examine; mentions Swammerdam