Vision And Its Instruments
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Author | : W.E.K. Middleton |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1952-12-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1487586566 |
In recent years, the problem of seeing through the atmosphere has been given intensive and costly consideration in several quarters, but particularly in the Untied States and Great Britain. A problem which once concerned mainly the meteorologists has become of great importance in military tactics as well as in peacetime transportation. The present volume is the only full account in English of the physical, physiological, and psychological factors which lie at the basis of the calculation of the range of vision through the atmosphere. There is an extended chapter on instruments and one on the author's own theory of the colours of distant objects. The figures are from many sources althrough many of them have been drawn specially for this book. The bibliography contains 420 entries nearly all of which are directly referred to in the text.
Author | : G. Bingham Powell |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300080162 |
This text explores elections as instruments of democracy. Focusing on elections in 20 democracies over the last 25 years, it examines the differences between two visions of democracy - the majoritarian vision and the proportional influence vision.
Author | : A. Joan Saab |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2021-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271088702 |
Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the centuries-old realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on troubling new dimensions. This book considers the ways in which seeing, over time, has become the foundation for knowing (or at least for what we think we know). A. Joan Saab examines the scientific and socially constructed aspects of seeing in order to delineate a genealogy of visuality from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating that what we see and how we see it are often historically situated and culturally constructed. Through a series of linked case studies that highlight moments of seeming disconnect between seeing and believing—hoaxes, miracles, spirit paintings, manipulated photographs, and holograms, to name just a few—she interrogates the relationship between “visions” and visuality. This focus on the strange and the wonderful in understanding changing notions of visions and visual culture is a compelling entry point into the increasingly urgent topic of technologically enhanced representations of reality. Accessibly written and thoroughly enlightening, Objects of Vision is a concise history of the connections between seeing and knowing that will appeal to students and teachers of visual studies and sensory, social, and cultural history.
Author | : Alina Alexandra Payne |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780271063898 |
A collection of essays investigating the early modern debates on the nature of sight and its epistemic value.
Author | : John Fry Heather |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Angles (Geometry) |
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Author | : John Fry HEATHER |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Mathematical instruments |
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Author | : Martin Willis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1317321847 |
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.
Author | : Benjamin King Johnson |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1960-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780486606422 |
A young soldier in training for the special forces in Vietnam learns how to rid himself of anxieties under stress and other emotional factors that may hinder his effectiveness in combat.
Author | : William Pearson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 1829 |
Genre | : Astronomical instruments |
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Author | : William Fisher Norris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1052 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Eye |
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