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Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History
University Of Chicago Press
September 2003
528 pages
ISBN: 0226261484
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Years ago, David Freedberg stumbled across a group of
drawings by the little-known Academy of Linceans, a
seventeenth-century Italian group that took as its task
nothing less than the pictorial documentation of all of
nature. Moving across Europe, he encountered thousands of
such drawings--of fossils, the species of the New World, or
the heavenly bodies studied by the group's most famous
member, Galileo Galilei. Profusely illustrated and
engagingly written, this book reveals this crucial moment in
the development of natural history.
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