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Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing PDF

414 Pages·2015·20.55 MB·English
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Start Reading About Eye of the Beholder About Laura J. Snyder Reviews Table of Contents www.headofzeus.com For John Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses—especially learn how to see. —LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452–1519) Painting is a science and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not a landscape be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but experiments? —JOHN CONSTABLE, “The History of Landscape Painting” (1836) Hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, III, II (ca. 1600) Contents Cover Welcome Page Frontispiece Dedication Epigraph PROLOGUE More Than Meets the Eye 1 2 3 4 5 PART 1 Counterfeiter of Nature 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PART 2 From the Lion’s Corner 1 2 3 4 5 PART 3 Fire and Light 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 PART 4 Learning to See 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PART 5 Ut pictura, ita visio 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 PART 6 Mathematical Artists 1 2 3 4 5 PART 7 A Treasure-House of Nature 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 PART 8 Year of Catastrophe 1 2 3 4 5 PART 9 The Invisible World 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 PART 10 Generations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PART 11 Scientific Lion 1 2 3 4 5 6 PART 12 New Ways of Seeing 1 2 3 4 5 EPILOGUE Dare to See! Picture Section Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About Eye of the Beholder Reviews About Laura J. Snyder An Invitation from the Publisher Copyright

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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 wer
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