Vision and its instruments : art, science, and technology in early modern Europe / edited by Alina Payne.

Date:
[2015]
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Description

"A collection of essays investigating the early modern debates on the nature of sight and its epistemic value"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]

Physical description

x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Epistemic Images -- Seeing the Unseeable -- The Painter's Brush and the Mind's Eye -- Looking Back : From Photography and Film to Alberti.

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    History of Medicine
    Q.AU
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ISBN

  • 9780271063898
  • 0271063890