The Art of Seeing
By: by Aldous Huxley, foreword by Laura Huxley
Publisher: Creative Arts Book Company
Published: October 1, 1982
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780916870485
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: Medical / Nursing; Eye; Health/Fitness; Orthoptics; Alternative Therapies; General; Vision; Diseases and defects; Accommodation and refraction
First sentence: At sixteen I had a violent attack of keratitis punctata, which left me (after eighteen months of near-blindness, during which I had to depend on Braille for reading and a guide for my walking) with one eye just capable of light perception, and the other with enough vision to permit of my detecting the two-hundred foot letter on the Snellen chart at ten feet.
Description: Both a document and a handbook The Art of Seeing records Aldous Huxley's victory over near-blindness and details the simple exercises anyone can follow to improve eyesight. Using the method devised by Dr. William H. Bates, "the pioneer of visual education," as Huxley called him, and heeding the advice of Dr. Bates' disciple, Margaret D. Corbett, Aldous Huxley conquered a vision problem that had plagued him for more than a quarter century.