Some epistemological and historical contributions in the beginnings of the anatomical and histological investigation of the eye and its contribution to therapeutics.

Abstract

The human eye with its anatomical and physiological diversity develops one of the most complex and special functions of human nature.

In this article we will illustrate the passage from the humoral theory to the cell theory with information from historical data and Kuhn's epistemological perspective that allows the historian of science to search for links between the terms of the old and later theories to determine the incommensurability, reinterpreting the impulse that the knowledge of the characteristics mentioned in the nineteenth century gained with the appearance of histology and the use of the microscope.