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100 1 $aFreedberg, David.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81029377
245 14 $aThe eye of the Lynx :$bGalileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history /$cDavid Freedberg.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2002.
263 $a0208
300 $axii, 513 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 481-500) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Saving the Appearances --$gPt. I.$tBackground.$g1.$tThe Paper Museum.$g2.$tLynxes --$gPt. II.$tAstronomy.$g3.$tThe New Star.$g4.$tThe Telescope: Imperfection in the Heavens.$g5.$tThe Conflict of Truths --$gPt. III.$tNatural History.$g6.$tThe Chastity of Bees.$g7.$tThe Microscope and the Vernacular.$g8.$tPlants and Reproduction.$g9.$tThe Mexican Treasury: Taxonomy and Illustration.$g10.$tThe Doctor's Dilemmas: Description, Dissection, and the Problem of Illustration.$g11.$tFossils --$gPt. IV.$tPictures and Order.$g12.$tThe Failure of Pictures.$g13.$tThe Order of Nature.$g14.$tThe Fate of Pictures: Appearance, Truth and Ambiguity.
520 1 $a"Founded by Prince Federico Cesi in 1603, the Linceans took as their task nothing less than the documentation and classification of all of nature in pictorial form. 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.
520 8 $aWhere previous thinkers had classified objects based mainly on similarities of external appearance, the Linceans instead turned increasingly to sectioning, dissection, and the observation of internal structures. They applied their new research techniques to an incredible variety of subjects, from the objects in the heavens studied by their most famous member Galileo Galilei - whom they supported at the most critical moments of his career - to the flora and fauna of Mexico, bees, fossils, and the reproduction of plants and fungi.
520 8 $aBut by demonstrating the inadequacy of surface structures for ordering the world, the Linceans unwittingly planted the seeds for the demise of their own favorite method - visual description - as a mode of scientific classification.".
520 8 $a"Profusely illustrated and engagingly written, Eye of the Lynx uncovers a crucial episode in the development of visual representation and natural history. And perhaps as important, it offers readers a dazzling array of early modern drawings, from magnificently depicted birds and flowers to frog in amber, monstrously misshapen citrus fruits, and more."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aAccademia nazionale dei Lincei$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$zItaly$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111337
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