A natural history of vision
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書誌事項
A natural history of vision
（Bradford book）
MIT Press, c1998
- : alk. paper
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-429) and indexes
内容説明・目次
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: alk. paper ISBN 9780262231947
内容説明
This illustrated survey covers what Nicholas Wade calls the "observational era of vision," beginning with the Greek philosophers and ending with Wheatstone's description of the stereoscope at the end of the 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. In what has become the author's signature style, the book juxtaposes verbal and visual descriptions. Many of the over three hundred illustrations are derived from engravings--of portraits of the scholars cited, as well as of scientific diagrams. Each portrait appears beside a significant quotation by the scholar, along with the dates of birth and death, and the source of the original illustration. The author's commentary provides the context for the quotations and traces the scientific development within each topic. The book is organized around the principal topics within the investigation of visual phenomena: light, color, subjective visual phenomena (such as afterimages and pattern distortions), motion, binocularity, space, and visual illusions.
目次
- Light and the eye
- colour
- subjective visual phenomena
- motion
- binocularity
- space
- illusions.
- 巻冊次
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: pbk ISBN 9780262731294
内容説明
This illustrated survey covers the "observational era of vision", beginning with the Greek philosophers and ending with Wheatstone's description of the stereoscope at the end of the 1830s (after which vision became an experimental science). This history of vision presents extracts of the works of scholars, organized both topically and chronologically. Nicholas J. Wade juxtaposes verbal and visual descriptions, and many of the illustrations are derived from engravings (of portraits of the scholars cited, as well as of scientific diagrams). Each portrait appears beside a significant quotation by the scholar, along with the dates of birth and death, and the source of the original illustration. The author's commentary provides the context for the quotations and traces the scientific development within each topic.
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