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Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
Laura J. Snyder
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| #490730 in Books | 2015-03-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.60 x1.40 x6.70l,.0 | File type: PDF | 448 pages||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Science meets art in the 17th century|By Robert R Holmes|For those of us living in the 21st century it is hard to imagine the early links that connected art and science. This excellent account, tells how optical aids were used by tradesmen (rug dealers to counted knots in a rugs weave), artists (projection lenses to achieve better perspective), and scientists (microscopes an||“Elegantly written intellectual history…fascinating.” - Deborah Blum, The New York Times Book
“An engaging and richly detailed work of interdisciplinary history.” - Jonat
The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.
On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek―a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher―gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At the same time, in a nearby attic, the painter Joh...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing | Laura J. Snyder. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.