Eye of the beholder : Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinventino of seeing

The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.
Snyder transports us to the streets, inns, and guildhalls of seventeenth-century Holland, where artists and scientists gathered, and to their studios and laboratories, where they mixed paints and prepared canvases, ground and polished lenses, examined and dissected insects and other animals, and invented the modern notion of seeing.