Seeing with the hands : blindness, vision, and touch after Descartes /: blindness, vision, and touch after Descartes. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Blindness, vision, and touch after Descartes
• Further Information: Note: Mark Paterson.
• Authors: Paterson, Mark, 1972-
• Contents: Introduction: on questioning blindess and what the blind 'see' -- 'Seeing with the hands': Descartes, blindness, and vision -- 'Suppose a man born blind...': cubes and spheres, hands and eyes -- Objects that 'touch'd his eyes': surgical experiments in the recovery of vision -- Voltaire, Buffon, and blindness in France -- The testimony of blind men: Diderot's Lettre -- Reading with the fingers: tactile signs and the possibilities for a language of touch -- Seeing with the tongue: sight through other means -- Blindness, empathy, and 'feeling seeing': literary accounts of blind experience.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages), illustrations, portraits
• Subjects: 362.4/1/01; Blind -- History; Visual perception -- History; Touch -- History; Touch; Blind; Visual perception; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays; Blindness; Touch; Philosophy, Medical; Touch Perception; Visual Perception; Visually Impaired Persons -- history; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474405331; 1474405339; 9781474405348; 1474405347; 9781474418614; 1474418619
• Related ISBNs: 9781474405317; 1474405312; 9781474405324; 1474405320
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.