Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing World War II Historical Fiction With this internationally inspired collection

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Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing World War II Historical Fiction With this internationally inspired collectionThe remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth century Holland transformed the way we see the world. On a summer 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 the same time, in a nearby attic, the painter Johannes