Science and Seeing
Channel: Science Gallery Bengaluru
Date: 18/05/2021

Saturday, 15 May 2021

David Arnold
Professor of South Asian and Global History
Warwick University

The technology that we use today allows us to explore the microscopic world in great detail. Before we had cutting-edge gadgets to study medicine and biology, scientists used various other technologies, tools, and methods to advance their knowledge. So, how did scientists in the 19th century see disease?

Using the examples of microscopy and photography, in this talk, Professor David Arnold explores the microcosm and macrocosm of contagion, the changing role of instruments and imagery in medical science, and the rise of the laboratory in India from the first cholera epidemics to bubonic plague in the 1890s.

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