Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (652 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00TE3N3VW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Science meets art in the 17th century Robert R Holmes For those of us living in the 21st century it is hard to imagine the early links that connected art and science. This excellent account, tells how optical aids were used by tradesmen (rug dealers to counted knots in a rugs weave), artists (projection lenses to achieve better perspective), and scientists (microscopes and telescopes to aid human vision). These men all lived at the same time in Amsterdam and certainly in. See For Yourself "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 and behold a new way of viewing their findings in a new light. As a. M. L. Jasper said A fascinating story, beautifully told.. Laura Snyder writes with a grace and clarity that bring scientific issues to life. I felt as if I were right there with Vermeer and van Leeuwenhoek, walking the streets of Delft beside them.
Meanwhile his neighbor Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's work with microscopes revealed a previously unimagined realm of minuscule creatures. "See for yourself!" was the clarion call of the 1600s. Natural philosophers threw off the yoke of ancient authority, peered at nature with microscopes and telescopes, and ignited the scientific revolution. The hub of this optical innovation was the small Dutch city of Delft. Here Johannes Vermeer's experiments with lenses and a camera obscura taught him how we see under different conditions of light and helped him create the most lumin