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

ISBN: 0226261484

ISBN13: 9780226261485

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

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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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