Wicked intelligence : visual art and the science of experiment in Restoration London / Matthew C. Hunter.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

xv, 329 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm

Introduction: "Very able, very sordid, cynical, wrong headed and whimsical" -- "I resolved to throw aside all manner of hypotheses . . . and to attend wholly to what the appearances themselves would teach me" -- Knives out: thinking on, with, through, and against paper in the mid-1660s -- Pictorial intelligence: Peter Lely, experimental culture, and the parameters of painting -- Cascade, copper, collection: constellations of images in 1670s experimental philosophy -- "The wonderful elaboratory of the animal body": the Royal Society's repository at work -- The science of architecture and the architecture of science -- Conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-316) and index.