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Eye of the beholder : Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing / Laura J. Snyder.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) N72.S3 S67 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snyder, Laura J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and science--Netherlands--Delft--History--17th century.
- Art and science.
- Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675--Knowledge and learning--Science.
- Vermeer, Johannes.
- Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675.
- Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van, 1632-1723.
- Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van.
- Science.
- History.
- Netherlands--Delft.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
- Summary:
- Taking readers to 17th-century Holland, where artists and scientists gathered, an extraordinary story reveals how two geniuses --a self-taught natural philosopher and an artist -- transformed the way we see the world by coming to the realization that there is more than meets the eye.
- Contents:
- Prologue: More than meets the eye
- Counterfeiter of nature
- From the lion's corner
- Fire and light
- Learning to see
- Ut pictura, ita visio
- Mathematical artists
- A treaure-house of nature
- Year of catastrophe
- The invisible world
- Generations
- Scientific lion
- New ways of seeing
- Dare to see!.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-405) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780393077469
- 0393077462
- OCLC:
- 892514232
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