Dieter Gerlach's book Geschichte der Mikroskopie (2009) is far and away the best single reference work on the history of microscopy.* It is also long out of print: the publisher Verlag Harri Deutsch closed its doors in 2013, and Dr. Gerlach passed away in 2015. Geschichte der Mikroskopie was clearly a labor of love and … Continue reading CD-ROM 💿 for Dieter Gerlach’s Geschichte der Mikroskopie (2009)
Category: historiography
In May 2022 Karl Matlin invited a few of us — Hanna Worliczek, Andrew Reynolds, Gina Surita, Anna Guerrero, and Jane Maienschein — out to the MBL to discuss our ideas for the future of the historiography of cell biology. I made some slides and pedantic comments. I thought I'd share my slides on what … Continue reading Core historiography on 19th century cell theory
Daniel Liu, History of Science 