article_snippet.sent: Eye of the Beholder .
article_snippet.sent: This is much more than a joint biography.
article_snippet.sent: This is a portrait of an age of insatiable intellectual curiosity.
article_snippet.sent: Snyder moves effortlessly not just between Vermeer’s studio and Leeuwenhoek’s laboratory, but all over Europe, from the universities of Italy, to the halls of the Royal Society in London, then the world’s pre-eminent scientific institution.
article_snippet.sent: The great pleasure of this book is how Snyder makes the science clear to the layman.
article_snippet.sent: I have a degree in history of art and only one measly science GCSE in biology.