Descriptions of visual phenomena from Aristotle to Wheatstone.

Abstract:

:A history of the observational era of vision is presented through selected descriptions of phenomena by natural philosophers from Aristotle to Wheatstone. The descriptions are listed under the headings of optics, colour, subjective visual phenomena, motion perception, eye movements, binocular vision, and space perception.

journal_name

Perception

journal_title

Perception

authors

Wade NJ

doi

10.1068/p251137

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-01-01 00:00:00

pages

1137-75

issue

10

eissn

0301-0066

issn

1468-4233

journal_volume

25

pub_type

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