IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB466161508

Microscopic Anatomy of Sensory Receptors (2019)

Wade, Nicholas J. (Author)

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Volume: 28
Issue: 3
Pages: 285-306
Publication date: 2019
Language: English

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0964704X.2018.1554298

DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2018.1554298

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Experiences following stimulation of the senses have been recorded for millennia, and they could be related to the gross anatomy of the sense organs. Examination of their microanatomy was to await the development of achromatic microscopes in the early nineteenth century. Among the microscopic structures that were isolated and described were specialized sensory cells, called receptors, and they could be related to the stimuli that excited them. Those located in well-defined sense organs (like the eyes, ears, nose, and tongue) were named on the basis of their morphology, whereas the receptors in or beneath the surface of the skin were generally named after those who first described them. Illustrations of early representations of sensory receptors are combined with “perceptual portraits” of the microanatomists who described them.

...More

Citation URI

data.isiscb.org/p/isis/citation/CBB466161508

This citation is part of the Isis database.

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Chapter Jorink, Eric; (2011)
Beyond the Lines of Apelles: Johannes Swammerdam, Dutch Scientific Culture and the Representation of Insect Anatomy

Article Jean-Claude Dupont; (2017)
Wilhelm His and Mechanistic Approaches to Development at the time of Entwicklungsmechanik

Thesis Russell Charles Maulitz; (1973)
A Treatise on Membranes: Concepts of Tissue Structure, Function and Dysfunction, from Xavier Bichat to Julius Cohnheim.

Article Brauckmann, Sabine; (2011)
Axes, Planes and Tubes, or the Geometry of Embryogenesis

Book Wotton, Roger S.; (2012)
Walking with Gosse: Natural History, Creation, and Religious Conflicts

Article Bruhn, Matthias; (2011)
Life Lines: An Art History of Biological Research around 1800

Article Matthews, Gareth B.; (2011)
Aristotle on the Organ of Touch

Article Wade, Nicholas J.; (2008)
Vision and Visualization

Article Rey, Anne-Lise; (2014)
Anatomie du corps et de l'esprit chez Francis Glisson

Book Colin Webster; (2023)
Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine

Chapter Veronique Deblon; (2017)
Imitating Anatomy: Recycling Anatomical Illustrations in Nineteenth-Century Atlases

Article O'Sullivan, Lisa; Jones, Ross L.; (2015)
Two Australian Fetuses: Frederic Wood Jones and the Work of an Anatomical Specimen

Article Bertoloni Meli, Domenico; (2015)
The Rise of Pathological Illustrations: Baillie, Bleuland, and Their Collections

Book B. Elliott; L. Guerrini; D. Pegler; (2015)
Flora: Federico Cesi's Botanical Manuscripts

Article Battigelli, Anna; (1996)
Between the Glass and the Hand: The Eye in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World

Book Enenkel, Karl A. E.; Kolfin, Elmer E. P.; Smith, Paul J.; (2007)
Early Modern Zoology: The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts

Article Christoffer Basse Eriksen; (2022)
Magnifying the first points of life: Harvey and Descartes on generation and scale

Book David Bainbridge; (2018)
Stripped Bare: The Art of Animal Anatomy

Article R. Allen Shotwell; (2016)
Animals, Pictures, and Skeletons: Andreas Vesalius's Reinvention of the Public Anatomy Lesson

Article Dániel Margócsy; Márk Somos; Stephen N. Joffe; (2017)
Vesalius’ Fabrica: A Report on the Worldwide Census of the 1543 and 1555 Editions