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Author Raynaud, Dominique, author.

Title Studies on binocular vision : optics, vision and perspective from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries / Dominique Raynaud.

Publication Info. [Cham, Switzerland] : Springer, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Archimedes ; volume 47
Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 47.
Contents Perspectiva naturalis/artificialis -- Knowledge and beliefs regarding linear perspective -- Understanding errors in perspective -- Fact and fiction regarding Masaccio's Trinity Fresco -- Ibn al-Haytham on binocular vision -- The legacy of Ibn al-Haytham -- The rejection of the two-point perspective system -- The properties of two-point perspective -- The Hauck--Panofsky conjecture regarding curvilinear perspective -- The White--Carter conjecture on synthetic perspective -- De Mesa's hypothesis regarding the arithmetic construction of perspective.
Summary This book clarifies the interrelationship between optics, vision and perspective before the Classical Age, examining binocularity in particular. The author shows how binocular vision was one of the key juncture points between the three concepts and readers will see how important it is to understand the approach that scholars once took. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the concept of Perspectiva - the Latin word for optics - encompassed many areas of enquiry that had been viewed since antiquity as interconnected, but which afterwards were separated: optics was incorporated into the field of physics (i.e., physical and geometrical optics), vision came to be regarded as the sum of various psycho-physiological mechanisms involved in the way the eye operates (i.e., physiological optics and psychology of vision) and the word 'perspective' was reserved for the mathematical representation of the external world (i.e., linear perspective). The author shows how this division, which emerged as a result of the spread of the sciences in classical Europe, turns out to be an anachronism if we confront certain facts from the immediately preceding periods. It is essential to take into account the way medieval scholars posed the problem - which included all facets of the Latin word perspectiva - when exploring the events of this period. This book will appeal to a broad readership, from philosophers and historians of science, to those working in geometry, optics, ophthalmology and architecture.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Subject Binocular vision -- History.
Binocular vision.
History.
Philosophy of science.
Geometry.
Optical physics.
Ophthalmology.
Theory of architecture.
History of science.
MEDICAL -- Physiology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Studies on Binocular Vision. [Place of publication not identified] : Springer Verlag 2016 9783319427201 (OCoLC)952384064
ISBN 9783319427218 (electronic book)
3319427210 (electronic book)
9783319427201
3319427202
Standard No. 10.1007/978-3-319-42721-8