EYE OF THE BEHOLDER / JOHANNES VERMEER, ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK, AND THE REINVENTION OF SEEING

The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.On a summe r day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoeka cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosophergazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At t he same time, in a nearby attic, the painter Johannes Vermeer was using another optical device, a camera obscura, to experiment with light and ...[Read more]