Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Ocular Horizons: Vision, Science and Literature -- Part I: Small -- 1. Microscopy and Disease: Science, Imagination and the Phantasmagoria -- 2. Microscopy and Disease: Place and Identity in Laboratory Science and Fiction -- Part II: Large -- 3. Optical Shattering: Percival Lowell, Mars and Authorities of Vision -- 4. Lowell's Minimum Visible: Wonder, Imagination and Popular Science -- Part III: Past -- 5. Looking as Tourists and Scientists: Amelia Edwards, Flinders Petrie and the Archaeology of the Egypt Exploration Fund -- 6. Egyptian Archaeology and Fiction: The Artefact as Thing -- Part IV: Future -- 7. Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini: Optics, Ophthalmology and Magical Performance -- 8. Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini: Sensation, Spectacle and Spiritualism -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.