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9780226261485

The Eye of the Lynx

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226261485

  • ISBN10:

    0226261484

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-08-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

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 drawingsof 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.

Author Biography

David Freedberg is a professor of art history and director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. His books include The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response, also published by the University of Chicago Press; The Prints of Bruegel the Elder; Art in History, History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture (with Jan de Vries); Rubens: The Life of Christ after the Passion; and Dutch Landscape Prints of the Seventeenth Century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
A Note to Historians of Science xi
Introduction Saving the Appearances 1(14)
PART I BACKGROUND
The Paper Museum
15(50)
Lynxes
65(16)
PART II ASTRONOMY
The New Star
81(20)
The Telescope: Imperfection in the Heavens
101(16)
The Conflict of Truths
117(34)
PART III NATURAL HISTORY
The Chastity of Bees
151(28)
The Microscope and the Vernacular
179(16)
Plants and Reproduction
195(50)
The Mexican Treasury: Taxonomy and Illustration
245(30)
The Doctor's Dilemmas: Description, Dissection, and the Problem of Illustration
275(30)
Fossils
305(44)
PART IV PICTURES AND ORDER
The Failure of Pictures
349(18)
The Order of Nature
367(30)
The Fate of Pictures: Appearance, Truth, and Ambiguity
397(20)
Notes 417(62)
Abbreviations 479(2)
Bibliography 481(20)
Headings 501(2)
Index 503

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