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The Eye of the Lynx : Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History
The Eye of the Lynx Galileo His Friends and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History
Author: David Freedberg
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 heavenl...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226261485
ISBN-10: 0226261484
Publication Date: 9/1/2003
Pages: 528
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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