Re: VMs: Cell

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 27 May 2005 12:23, you wrote:
> Citát Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Friday 27 May 2005 10:48, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> > > Are there any biologists here?
> >
> > I really think that the cell idea is very far fetched.
> > Cell images were also suggested by Newbold, who thought that Bacon had
> > not only a microscope (!) but a compound one (!!).
>
> Is that a problem?

Yes, it seems so to me. It is not just one invention, there are several 
technological barriers to see stained cells.

> How we know that he has not kind of microscope or 
> another device with function like microscope that we do not have to know
> about?

Well, we don't know what we don't know :-), but should one assume that the 
author had one by the apprearance of the pictures, just because it is 
"possible"?

The problem is that this type of argument then turns into a circular one with 
two unknowns that support each other: The pictures maybe cells observed with 
an instrument which it is not know to have existed then... and the proof that 
the instrument existed is the images of the cells.
This is the kind of argument that Newbold used for the micro and telescope 
images in the ms.

Cheers,

Gabriel

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