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

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

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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.

The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History,David Freedberg,University Of Chicago Press,0226261484,Accademia nazionale dei Lincei,Commercial - Illustration - Science,Europe - Italy,General,History,Italy,Science,Science/Mathematics,Animals depicted in art,European history: c 1500 to c 1750,History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800,History of science,Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes,Science / History,c 1600 to c 1700

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