In today’s video we look at some Victorian books focusing on instructing people on the microscopic world. How to use the microscope, and what some things look like under the microscope. The illustrations are some of the most spectacular work done by Edmund Evans.
More information on the Victorians, Fairies, and the Microscope.

Fairy tales, natural history and Victorian culture by Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence.
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan. 2014

Nature's Invisibilia: The Victorian Microscope and the Miniature Fairy By: Laura Forsberg. Victorian Studies, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Summer 2015), pp. 638-666. Indiana University Press

Ursula Seibold-Bultmann.“Monster Soup: The Microscope and Victorian Fantasy” (Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 2000).

Artist Mentioned: Caro Arevalo – she creates Microscope art. Check out her video on it and her YouTube channel:    • Lots of Painting, Microscope Art & Mu...  

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