The microscope and the eye: a history of reflections, 1740-1870

The versatile tool of improvement

Encountering optical deceptions

Tools of accuracy

Microscopic fallacies, peculiar optical deceptions, and the eye's defects

Test objects and the pretensions, defects, and excellencies of individual microscopes

Johannes Müller and the problem of 'subject-object'

Bringing physics to anatomy

Handling nervous tissue and the problem of visual acuity

The microscope's retina

Writing on microscopy.