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Eye of the beholder : Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing / Laura J. Snyder

by Laura Snyder

This history examines the intersection of art and science in seventeenth-century Delft, focusing on how early optical instruments transformed human perception. It details how the use of the microscope and camera obscura redefined understandings of light, colour, and nature.

Accession 9500 ISBN 9780393077469 Publisher W. W. Norton & Co.
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