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

by David Freedberg

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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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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"

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17th Century Design History Illustration Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Science Illustration

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