The Eye of the Lynx

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The discovery of hundreds of botanical and zoological drawings at Windsor Castle led to a trail that led across Europe to a little-known scientific organization from 17th century Italy called the academy of Linceans (or Lynxes). This volume documents the history of their work.

Product details

• Authors: David Freedberg
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2003
• EAN: 9780226261485
• ISBN: 978-0-226-26148-5
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 260 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Italien, 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Natur in der Kunst, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.)