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visual art and the science of experiment in Restoration London
1 online resource (xv, 329 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map.
Introduction: "Very able, very sordid, cynical, wrong headed and whimsical" -- "I resolved to throw aside all manner of hypotheses . . . and to attend wholly to what the appearances themselves would teach me" -- Knives out: thinking on, with, through, and against paper in the mid-1660s -- Pictorial intelligence: Peter Lely, experimental culture, and the parameters of painting -- Cascade, copper, collection: constellations of images in 1670s experimental philosophy -- "The wonderful elaboratory of the animal body": the Royal Society's repository at work -- The science of architecture and the architecture of science -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
9780226017297 (hardcover : alkaline paper)