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Vision, science and literature, 1870-1920 : ocular horizons /
This book explores the Victorian concept of vision across scientific and cultural forms. Willis charts the characterization of vision through four organizing principles - small, large, past and future - to arrive at a Victorian conception of what vision was. Willis then explores how this Victorian v...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Willis, Martin, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Vision, science and literature, 1870-1920 : |b ocular horizons / |c by Martin Willis. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Pittsburgh : |b University of Pittsburgh Press, |c [2016] | |
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| 490 | 1 | |a Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; |v number 15 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-285). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction: Ocular Horizons: Vision, Science and Literature; Part I: Small; 1 Microscopy and Disease: Science, Imagination and the Phantasmagoria; 2 Microscopy and Disease: Place and Identity in Laboratory Science and Fiction; Part II: Large; 3 Optical Shattering: Percival Lowell, Mars and Authorities of Vision; 4 Lowell's Minimum Visible: Wonder, Imagination and Popular Science; Part III: Past. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 5 Looking as Tourists and Scientists: Amelia Edwards, Flinders Petrie and the Archaeology of the Egypt Exploration Fund6 Egyptian Archaeology and Fiction: The Artefact as Thing; Part IV: Future; 7 Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini: Optics, Ophthalmology and Magical Performance; 8 Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini: Sensation, Spectacle and Spiritualism; Afterword; Notes; Works Cited; Index. | |
| 520 | |a This book explores the Victorian concept of vision across scientific and cultural forms. Willis charts the characterization of vision through four organizing principles - small, large, past and future - to arrive at a Victorian conception of what vision was. Willis then explores how this Victorian vision influenced twentieth-century ways of seeing. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a PDF (JSTOR, viewed Aug. 23, 2016). | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Vision |x Social aspects |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Vision |x Philosophy |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Literature and science |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Vision |x Aspect social |x Histoire |y 19e siècle. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Vision |x Philosophie |x Histoire |y 19e siècle. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Littérature et sciences |x Histoire |y 19e siècle. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Literature and science. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01000093 | |
| 648 | 7 | |a 1800-1899 |2 fast | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Willis, Martin. |t Vision, science, and literature, 1870-1920 : ocular horizons. |d Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2016 |h xii, 295 pages |k Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; Number 15 |z 9781848932340 |
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