Lash, Alexander PaulssonAlexander PaulssonLash2024-01-232024-01-232023-12-0100138304https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85180939826&doi=10.1353%2felh.2023.a914014&partnerID=40&md5=a1b4e6c3e43788f02d2f206adc58397ahttps://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/638820Focusing on Robert Hooke’s spectacular 1665 Micrographia and Thomas Shadwell’s 1676 satire of Hooke and other members of the early Royal Society, The Virtuoso, this essay argues that the concept of discovery was central to managing the challenges of technologically assisted perception. In Hooke’s accounts of how he discovered new objects in his microscope, Shadwell discovered a language for thinking through how characters could be known inside the new scenic stage of the Restoration theaters.[SDGs]SDG11journal article10.1353/elh.2023.a9140142-s2.0-85180939826