Eye of the beholder : Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing /
Taking readers to 1seventeenth-century Holland, where artists and scientists gathered, an extraordinary story reveals how two geniuses, a self-taught natural philosopher and an artist, transformed the way we see the world by coming to the realization that there is more than meets the eye.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Taking readers to 1seventeenth-century Holland, where artists and scientists gathered, an extraordinary story reveals how two geniuses, a self-taught natural philosopher and an artist, transformed the way we see the world by coming to the realization that there is more than meets the eye. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780393077469 (hardcover) 0393077462 (hardcover) |