Studies on Binocular Vision : Optics, Vision and Perspective from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries.: Optics, Vision and Perspective from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Contents: 1. Perspectiva Naturalis/Artificialis -- Part I. Errors -- 2. Knowledge and Beliefs Regarding Linear Perspective -- 3. Understanding Errors in Perspective -- 4. Fact and Fiction Regarding Masaccio’s Trinity Fresco -- Part II. Theory -- 5. Ibn al-Haytham on Binocular Vision -- 6. The Legacy of Ibn al-Haytham -- 7. The Rejection of the Two-Point Perspective System -- Part III. Sifting the Hypotheses -- 8. The Properties of Two-Point Perspective -- 9. The Hauck–Panofsky Conjecture Regarding Curvilinear Perspective -- 10. The White–Carter Conjecture on Synthetic Perspective -- 11. De Mesa Hypothesis Regarding the Arithmetic Construction of Perspective -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Error Analysis and Perspective Reconstruction -- Appendix 2: Artwork Catalogue -- Appendix 3: Errors of Reconstruction -- Appendix 4: Calculus of the Vanishing Points -- Appendix 5: Plates.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer Verlag
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 612.84; History; Binocular vision -- History; MEDICAL -- Physiology; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology; Binocular vision; Science -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; Mathematics -- Geometry -- General; Science -- Electricity; Medical -- Ophthalmology; Architecture -- History -- General; Philosophy of science; Geometry; Optical physics; Ophthalmology; Theory of architecture; Science_xPhilosophy; Geometry; Ophthalmology; Architecture; Science -- History; History of science; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319427218; 3319427210
• Related ISBNs: 9783319427201; 3319427202
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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