Like Leather, like Snakes
Julian Bell: Vermeer and Leeuwenhoek, 30 March 2017
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and the Reinvention of Seeing
by Laura Snyder.
Head of Zeus, 448 pp., £14.99, December 2016,978 1 78497 025 3 Show More
by Laura Snyder.
Head of Zeus, 448 pp., £14.99, December 2016,
“... eggs from the surrounding jelly, he noted that their outward covering mostly consisted of ‘small black dots’ – knobbly, ‘like shagreen leather’ – below which there lay ‘watery fluid, and an incredible number of globules, each of which globules again consisted of a large number of smaller globules, each of which had in its centre a larger ... ”