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"See on your own!" was the clarion call of the 1600s. Natural philosophers threw off of the yoke of old authority, peered at mother nature with microscopes and telescopes, and ignited the methodical revolution. Artists looked into nature with lenses and created paintings filled with realistic ramifications of light and shadow. The hub of this optical invention was the tiny Dutch city of Delft. Here Johannes Vermeer's tests with lenses and a camera obscura trained him how exactly we see under different conditions of light and helped him create the most luminous artwork ever beheld. In the mean time his neighbor Antoni truck Leeuwenhoek's work with microscopes disclosed a recently unimagined world of minuscule creatures. The result was a change in both skill and technology that revolutionized how exactly we start to see the world today.
