LEADER 04089nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910455579703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-50419-3 010 $a9786612504198 010 $a0-226-26153-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226261539 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006456 035 $a(OCoLC)659561164 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10364135 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000417476 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11301678 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000417476 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10361296 035 $a(PQKB)11255147 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3038245 035 $a(DE-B1597)524234 035 $a(OCoLC)1135615852 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226261539 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3038245 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364135 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL250419 035 $a(OCoLC)923700625 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006456 100 $a20020115d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe eye of the Lynx$b[electronic resource] $eGalileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history /$fDavid Freedberg 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (526 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-226-26148-4 311 $a0-226-26147-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 481-500) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note to Historians of Science -- $tIntroduction -- $tPART I. BACKGROUND -- $tPART II. ASTRONOMY -- $tPART III. NATURAL HISTORY -- $tPART IV. PICTURES AND ORDER -- $tNotes -- $tAbbreviations -- $tBibliography -- $tHe a d i n g s 330 $aSome years ago, David Freedberg opened a dusty cupboard at Windsor Castle and discovered hundreds of vividly colored, masterfully precise drawings of all sorts of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds. Coming upon thousands more drawings like them across Europe, Freedberg finally traced them all back to a little-known scientific organization from seventeenth-century Italy called the Academy of Linceans (or Lynxes). 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 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 (and infamous) 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 frogs in amber, monstrously misshapen citrus fruits, and more. 606 $aScience$zItaly$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 676 $a509.45 686 $aTB 2355$2rvk 700 $aFreedberg$b David$0143719 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455579703321 996 $aThe eye of the Lynx$92219730 997 $aUNINA