Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

by Laura J. Snyder

Book Overview

On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek--a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher--gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At the same time, in a nearby attic, the painter Johannes Vermeer was using another optical device, a camera obscura, to experiment with light and create the most luminous pictures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393077462
• ISBN13: 9780393077469
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.4"