Author

Publication

1998 - MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

116,500 words, Guess

Page Count

466 pages

Identifiers

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  • Library of Congress Control Number97022697
  • Goodreads2191150
  • LibraryThing2665507

Classifications

  • DDC612.8/4
  • LCCQP475 .W24 1998

Description

This illustrated survey covers what Nicholas Wade calls the "observational era of vision," beginning with the Greek philosophies and ending with Wheatstone's description of the stereoscope in the late 1830s (after which vision became an experimental science). Although there are other histories of vision, this is the first to present extracts of the works of scholars, organized both topically and chronologically.

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