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Wicked Intelligence

Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London

Wicked Intelligence( )
Author: Hunter, Matthew C.
ISBN:978-0-226-01729-7
Publication Date:Oct 2013
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $63.00
Book Description:

In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory walls by projection machines, cut-paper figures revealing the "exact proportions" of sea monsters--all were created by members of the Royal Society of London, the leading institutional platform of the early Scientific Revolution. Wicked Intelligence reveals that these natural...
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Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Architecture / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation
Art / European
Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Science / General
Science / History
Art / Criticism & Theory
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.706 x 1.014 x 0.105 Inches
Book Weight:1.83 Pounds



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