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Eye of the Beholder - Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing (Hardcover)
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Eye of the Beholder - Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing (Hardcover)
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By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under
way. Philosophers and scientists were throwing off the yoke of
ancient authority to peer at nature and the cosmos through
microscopes and telescopes. In October 1632, in the small town of
Delft in the Dutch Republic, two geniuses were born who would bring
about a seismic shift in the idea of what it meant to see the
world. One was Johannes Vermeer, whose experiments with lenses and
a camera obscura taught him how we see under different conditions
of light and helped him create the most luminous works of art ever
beheld. The other was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, whose work with
microscopes revealed a previously unimagined realm of minuscule
creatures. By intertwining the biographies of these two men, Laura
Snyder tells the story of a historical moment in both art and
science that revolutionized how we see the world today.
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