Visual perception that differs from objective reality

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The mystery and lore of apparitions : with some account of ghosts, spectres, phantoms and boggarts in early times / by C.J.S. Thompson.

An optical spinning toy. Coloured lithograph.

Grand philosophical, optical, & mechanical exhibition / by M. de Philipsthal.

La perspective cvrievse ov magie artificiele des effets merveillevx. De l'optique, par la vision directe. La catoptrique, par la reflexion des miroirs plats, cylindriques & coniques, la dioptrique, par la refraction des crystaux ... / Par le père f. Ican François Nicéron.

Distortion in art : the eye and the mind / J.B. Dereģowski.

Sleights of mind : what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions / Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde ; with Sandra Blakeslee.

The true history of the ghost : and all about metempsychosis / by Professor Pepper.

Über den Grössenkontrast : eine experimental-psychologische Studie / von Curt Reichel.

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Optical Illusions

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La perspective cvrievse ov magie artificiele des effets merveillevx. De l'optique, par la vision directe. La catoptrique, par la reflexion des miroirs plats, cylindriques & coniques, la dioptrique, par la refraction des crystaux ... / Par le père f. Ican François Nicéron.

Distortion in art : the eye and the mind / J.B. Dereģowski.

Sleights of mind : what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions / Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde ; with Sandra Blakeslee.

The true history of the ghost : and all about metempsychosis / by Professor Pepper.

Über den Grössenkontrast : eine experimental-psychologische Studie / von Curt Reichel.

Optical Illusions

Images from the collections

Images referencing Optical Illusions

Works from the collections

La perspective cvrievse ov magie artificiele des effets merveillevx. De l'optique, par la vision directe. La catoptrique, par la reflexion des miroirs plats, cylindriques & coniques, la dioptrique, par la refraction des crystaux ... / Par le père f. Ican François Nicéron.

Distortion in art : the eye and the mind / J.B. Dereģowski.

Sleights of mind : what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions / Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde ; with Sandra Blakeslee.

The true history of the ghost : and all about metempsychosis / by Professor Pepper.

Über den Grössenkontrast : eine experimental-psychologische Studie / von Curt Reichel.

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