Eye Of The Beholder - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784970255 ISBN 13: 9781784970253

Publisher: Head Of Zeus, 1996

Synopsis

Eye of the Beholder

About this title

About the Author:

Fulbright scholar Laura J. Snyder is the author of The Philosophical Breakfast Club, a Scientific American Notable Book, winner of the 2011 Royal Institution of Australia poll for Favorite Science Book, and an official selection of the TED Book Club. She is also the author of Reforming Philosophy. Snyder writes about science and ideas for the Wall Street Journal. She is a professor at St. John's University and lives in New York City.

Review:

'Engaging ... a spirited account of these developments and of their conceptual as well as their practical implications. She is adept at picturing the culture in which her protagonists grew up. She has a relish for detail' London Review of Books. 'The reciprocal relationship between science and art in the seventeenth century might well be called "the reinvention of seeing". It is in this absorbing way that Snyder takes us back through time, beyond the reflections and shadows, to the very heart of Vermeer's art' Independent. 'The great pleasure of this book is how Snyder makes the science clear to the layman' Irish Daily Mail. 'Snyder has a natural wit that emerges with the narrative' Catholic Herald. 'Irresistible ... Spectacular ... [Snyder] ingeniously explores the minutiae of her subjects' lives to reveal sweeping changes in how their world was understood - ones that still resonate today' New Scientist. 'Snyder beautifully evokes the ambience of late 17th-century Delft ... She is revelatory about Vermeer's aims and methods' Philip Ball, Nature. 'So suffused with excitement it feels like a thriller ... Snyder has her own way of seeing into history. She looks back into its murky waters and makes lost connections visible' The Herald. 'One of those engaging books that make you smarter without making you suffer ... This poetic, inclusive approach to popular science writing makes Eye of the Beholder an unfailing pleasure to read' The Daily Beast. 'Engaging and richly detailed interdisciplinary history' Wall Street Journal. 'This is much more than a group biography - it is a portrait of an age of insatiable intellectual curiosity ... The great pleasure of the book is how Snyder makes the science clear to the layman' Daily Mail. 'Laura Snyder is a master storyteller. A fabulous book' Oliver Sacks.

About this edition

• Publisher: Head Of Zeus
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1784970255
• ISBN 13: 9781784970253
• Binding: Paperback