[Read and download] Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
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| #333203 in Books | Laura J Snyder | 2016-05-17 | 2016-05-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x1.20 x5.50l,.0 | File Name: 0393352889 | 448 pages | Eye of the Beholder Johannes Vermeer Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek and the Reinvention of Seeing
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| See For Yourself|By kim|"Dum audes, ardua vinces" "When you dare,you will conquer the steep" is what Laura Snyder shares how these two great men, Artist and Scientist thirst for knowledge and in doing so conquer the steep in the minutia. No less than the author has in researching the finest details and successfully articulating them to enable the reader to see for themselves a||“Elegantly written intellectual history . . . fascinating.” - Deborah Blum, New York Times Book
“An engaging and richly detailed work of interdisciplinary history.” - Jonathan
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 Jo...
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