Eye Of The Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, And The Reinvention Of Seeing

Eye Of The Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, And The Reinvention Of SeeingBy the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists were throwing off the yoke of ancient authority to peer at nature and the cosmos through microscopes and telescopes. In October 1632, in the small town of Delft in the Dutch Republic, two geniuses were born who would bring about a seismic shift in the idea of what it meant to see the world. One was Johannes Vermeer, whose experiments with lenses and a

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