"Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing" von Laura J. Snyder ist ein faszinierendes Sachbuch, das die parallelen Leben und Errungenschaften zweier bemerkenswerter Persönlichkeiten des...

By 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...