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Author Freedberg, David.

Title The eye of the Lynx : Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history / David Freedberg.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  509.45 F875e 2002    ---  Available
Description xii, 513 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-500) and index.
Summary In this first book-length study of the Linceans to appear in English, Freedberg focuses especially on their unprecedented use of drawings based on microscopic observation and other new techniques of visualization. Where previous thinkers had classified objects based mainly on similarities of external appearance, the Linceans instead turned increasingly to sectioning, dissection, and observation of internal structures.
Subject Accademia nazionale dei Lincei -- History.
Science -- Italy -- History.
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
Cesi, Federico, 1585-1630.
Natural history -- Italy.
ISBN 0226261476 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0226261484 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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