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The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History

By David Freedberg

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0226261484, 9780226261485
Open Library ID
OL9626065M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
134 MB (140835037 bytes)
Edition
First Edition, Second Impression
Pages
528\526
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Years ago, David Freedberg stumbled across a group of drawings by the little-known Academy of Linceans, a seventeenth-century Italian group that took as its task nothing less than the pictorial documentation of all of nature. Moving across Europe, he encountered thousands of such drawings—of fossils, the species of the New World, or the heavenly bodies studied by the group's most famous member, Galileo Galilei. Profusely illustrated and engagingly written, this book reveals this crucial moment in the development of natural history.

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