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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raynaud, Dominique (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Cham, Switzerland] : Springer, [2016]
Colección:Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 47.
Temas:
Binocular vision > History.
Vision binoculaire > Histoire.
Philosophy of science.
Geometry.
Optical physics.
Ophthalmology.
Theory of architecture.
History of science.
MEDICAL > Physiology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Binocular vision
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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