Microscopes & Perspective

• microscope revolutionised perspectives and scales - revealed for the first time
• the microscope reveals invisible worlds - atoms, cells --> the notion of worlds within worlds (most explicitly explored by Cavendish)
• writers begin to offer new models of thinking; new structures, shapes, worlds, purposes, etc.
• think of the microscope as merely a tool, or as an extension of the body?

  diverts from the way we naturally function; ethical concerns? against God's will?
• a horror and fascination with micro-sensation during this period
• small, localised imagery; microscopic analysis & imagination