Author: Hoorn, Willem van
Title: As Images Unwind. Ancient and Modern Theories of Visual Perception.
Description: Amsterdam, University Press, 1972, cloth, dustjacket, large 8vo, xiv+281 pp., ills., pre-aristoteilans on visual perception; Empedocles, Democritus, Plato; Aristotle and the actuality of the diaphanous medium; stimulus and response; Helmholtz and Wundt; Leonardo da Vinci and the complexity of visual perception; Descartes n-resemblance theory; the Goethe-Newton problem; Goethe on science; very good condition. . ISBN: 9060421426.

Keywords: vision, perception, history, science, philosophy


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