title: Microscopy: an art?
abstract: There can be no doubt that the finest creator of beauty is Mother Nature. And in many ways, science is the exploration of this beauty and of the mechanisms that have created it. Microscopy, as a technique in scientific investigation, has had a key role in uncovering nature's beauty, which has led some to propose that microscopy could be described as an art or even an art form. But is this claim justified?
authors.affiliation: Department of Morphology, University Medical Center, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. lelio.orci@medecine.unige.ch
authors.forename: Lelio
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Orci
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Pepper
mesh_terms: D000716:Anatomy, Artistic / Q000266:history; D000818:Animals; D001154:Art / Q000266:history; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008488:Medical Illustration / Q000266:history; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D008853:Microscopy / Q000266:history