Eye of the beholder : Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Physical Description
xiv, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary
Taking readers to 17th-century Holland, where artists and scientists gathered, an extraordinary story reveals how two geniuses --a self-taught natural philosopher and an artist -- transformed the way we see the world by coming to the realization that there is more than meets the eye.