Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London
by
Matthew C. Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
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...