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Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing by Laura J. Snyder (Paperback, 2016)

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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 Johannes Vermeer was using ather optical device, a camera obscura, to experiment with light and create the most lumius pictures ever beheld. See for yourself! was the clarion call of the 1600s. Scientists peered at nature through microscopes and telescopes, making the discoveries in astromy, physics, chemistry, and anatomy that ignited the Scientific Revolution. Artists investigated nature with lenses, mirrors, and camera obscuras, creating extraordinarily detailed paintings of flowers and insects, and scenes filled with realistic effects of light, shadow, and color. By extending the reach of sight the new optical instruments prompted the realization that there is more than meets the eye. But they also raised questions about how we see and what it means to see. In answering these questions, scientists and artists in Delft changed how we perceive the world. In Eye of the Beholder, Laura J. Snyder transports us to the streets, inns, and guildhalls of seventeenth-century Holland, where artists and scientists gathered, and to their studios and laboratories, where they mixed paints and prepared canvases, ground and polished lenses, examined and dissected insects and other animals, and invented the modern tion of seeing. With charm and narrative flair Snyder brings Vermeer and Van Leeuwenhoek-and the men and women around them-vividly to life. The story of these two geniuses and the transformation they engendered shows us why we see the world-and our place within it-as we do today. Eye of the Beholder was named A Best Art Book of the Year by Christie's and A Best Read of the Year by New Scientist in 2015.

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Publisher
Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-10
0393352889
ISBN-13
9780393352887
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222086170

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Author
Laura J. Snyder
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Popular Science
Genre
Popular Science

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370g
Height
211mm
Width
140mm

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Place of Publication
New York
Spine
30mm
Content Note
16 Pages of Color Illustrations
Author Biography
Fulbright scholar Laura J. Snyder is the author of The Philosophical Breakfast Club, a Scientific American Notable Book, winner of the 2011 Royal Institution of Australia poll for Favorite Science Book, and an official selection of the TED Book Club. She is also the author of Eye of the Beholder and Reforming Philosophy. Snyder writes about science and ideas for the Wall Street Journal. She is a professor at St. John's University and lives in New York City.
Date of Publication
13/05/2016
Country of Publication
United States

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