Vision and its instruments
Subtitle: art, science, and technology in early modern Europe
By: edited by Alina Payne
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780271063898
Subjects: Art and science; Visual perception; Art and technology
Description: "A collection of essays investigating the early modern debates on the nature of sight and its epistemic value"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Epistemic Images; title: Seeing the Unseeable; title: The Painter's Brush and the Mind's Eye; title: Looking Back : From Photography and Film to Alberti.