Ciência e a sociedade oitocentista: rastros dos usos da técnica fotográfica

Abstract

The text discusses photography, its genesis, repercussions and uses reserved for those of greater social and political ascension, the wise and scientists. Attentive to the idealization of the image by devices as an aspiration of man, to the role of medium between the subject and the world, emphasizing the changes arising from the development of instrumental science: the invention and use of medical devices, pliers, scalpels, tweezers, microscopes, mediating instruments that allowed greater acuity on the world and the wanton look on the inside of bodies. It addresses the change that occurred in Medicine when it passed from ancient and medieval textual authority to the domain of the visible and the total transparency of bodies, through mediating devices, among them, photography.