The introduction of the microscope and the telescope in the 17th century marked a break in human perception as it broke us out of our anthropocentric lens. Galileo observed the mountains on the moon; Antonie van Leeuwenhoek peered into a droplet of water.[^1] For the first time in human history, human beings were capable of looking into the world with lenses that are not the one attached to our iris, with radically different scale factors. That also marks the point where we realize the human scale is not the only scale. Up: [[Historic Breaks in Human Perspective]] [^1]: Robert Macfarlane on the David Perell's podcast "Cambridge Professor: Why All Writing Sounds the Same Now," *How I Write*, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdsE9XqB2bI.