The eye of the Lynx : Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history / David Freedberg.
"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 d...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2002.
|
| Subjects: |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000004i 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 005 | 20221101183738.0 | ||
| 008 | 020115s2002 ilua b 001 0 eng d | ||
| 010 | |a 2002000361 | ||
| 011 | |a BIB MATCHES WORLDCAT | ||
| 020 | |a 0226261476 |q cloth (acid-free paper) | ||
| 020 | |a 9780226261478 |q cloth (acid-free paper) | ||
| 020 | |a 0226261484 |q pbk. | ||
| 020 | |a 9780226261485 |q pbk. | ||
| 035 | |a (ATU)b11055601 | ||
| 035 | |a (DLC) 2002000361 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)48811096 | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |b eng |e rda |d ATU | ||
| 042 | |a pcc | ||
| 043 | |a e-it--- | ||
| 050 | 0 | 0 | |a Q127.I8 |b F74 2002 |
| 082 | 0 | 0 | |a 509.45 |2 21 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Freedberg, David, |e author. |9 1043312 | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The eye of the Lynx : |b Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history / |c David Freedberg. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Chicago : |b University of Chicago Press, |c 2002. | |
| 300 | |a xii, 513 pages : |b illustrations (some colour) ; |c 26 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-500) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Introduction: Saving the Appearances -- |g Pt. I. |t Background. |g 1. |t The Paper Museum. |g 2. |t Lynxes -- |g Pt. II. |t Astronomy. |g 3. |t The New Star. |g 4. |t The Telescope: Imperfection in the Heavens. |g 5. |t The Conflict of Truths -- |g Pt. III. |t Natural History. |g 6. |t The Chastity of Bees. |g 7. |t The Microscope and the Vernacular. |g 8. |t Plants and Reproduction. |g 9. |t The Mexican Treasury: Taxonomy and Illustration. |g 10. |t The Doctor's Dilemmas: Description, Dissection, and the Problem of Illustration. |g 11. |t Fossils -- |g Pt. IV. |t Pictures and Order. |g 12. |t The Failure of Pictures. |g 13. |t The Order of Nature. |g 14. |t The 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. Where 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. But 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." "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. | |
| 588 | |a Machine converted from AACR2 source record. | ||
| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Accademia nazionale dei Lincei |x History. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Science |z Italy |x History |9 669978 | |
| 907 | |a .b11055601 |b 20-03-18 |c 27-10-15 | ||
| 942 | |c B | ||
| 945 | |a 509.45 FRE |g 1 |i A217158B |j 0 |l cmain |o - |p $59.72 |q - |r - |s - |t 0 |u 4 |v 0 |w 0 |x 1 |y .i12328042 |z 29-10-15 | ||
| 952 | |0 0 |1 0 |4 0 |6 509_450000000000000_FRE |7 0 |9 283412 |a C |b C |c cmain |d 2015-10-29 |g 59.72 |i i12328042 |l 4 |m 0 |o 509.45 FRE |p A217158B |r 2018-09-10 00:00:00 |s 2018-07-30 |t 1 |v 59.72 |w 2021-10-31 |y B | ||
| 998 | |a (2)b |a (2)c |b 20-03-18 |c m |d a |e - |f eng |g ilu |h 4 | ||
| 999 | |c 1162887 |d 1162887 | ||