Descriptions of Visual Phenomena from Aristotle to Wheatstone

1996/10/01 by Nicholas Wade · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Neuroscience · #History of Science and Medicine #Wheatstone bridge #Perception #Motion (physics) #Psychology #Visual perception #Space (punctuation) #Visual space #Natural (archaeology) #Optics #Computer vision #Cognitive science #Physics #Artificial intelligence #Computer science #Philosophy #History #Neuroscience #Linguistics

paper · doi:10.1068/p251137

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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.

Citations

• Leonardo Da Vinci on Vision
• On the history of deformation phosphenes and the idea of internal light generated in the eye for the purpose of vision
• History of Photography
• V. Explanation of an optical deception in the appearance of the spokes of a wheel seen through vertical apertures
• II. The Bakerian Lecture. On the theory of light and colours
• XVIII. Contributions to the physiology of vision. —Part the first. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, phenomena of binocular vision
• XVI. New experiments on the ocular spectra of light and colours.
• A letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge; containing his new theory about light and colors: sent by the author to the publisher from Cambridge, Febr. 6. 1671/72; in order to be communicated to the R. Society

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