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

by David Freedberg

Book Overview

Some years ago, David Freedberg opened a dusty cupboard at Windsor Castle and discovered hundreds of vividly colored, masterfully precise drawings of all sorts of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds. Coming upon thousands more drawings like them across Europe, Freedberg finally traced them all back to a little-known scientific organization from seventeenth-century Italy called the Academy of Linceans (or Lynxes).

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226261484
• ISBN13: 9780226261485
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 10.2"