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Nature 422, 118 (13 March 2003) | doi:10.1038/422118b

Through the eye of the lynx

Italy is brimming with art treasures, but now and again new troves emerge from obscurity. In The Eye of the Lynx (University of Chicago Press, $50), art historian David Freedberg brings together a wealth of mostly unknown natural-history drawings produced by the world's first modern scientific academy, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Academy of the Lynxes), which was founded 400 years ago.