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Concept

Visual Perception

Images

  • A man behind a woman who is combing her hair; representing the sense of sight. Engraving.
  • Surface of retina showing glial cells - 3D
  • Looking up from underneath a microscope
  • Retinal ganglion cell
  • Cell bodies and axons of the mesencephalic

Catalogue

    • Books

    Galileo's visions : piercing the spheres of the heavens by eye and mind / Marco Piccolino and Nicholas J. Wade.

    Piccolino, Marco. | Date: 2014
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Green glass eye bath.

    • Pictures
    • Online

    A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.

    Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676. | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 26944i
    • Books

    Museums and the interpretation of visual culture / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill.

    Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean, 1945- | Date: 2000
    • Books

    Sight and embodiment in the Middle Ages / Suzannah Biernoff.

    Biernoff, Suzannah. | Date: 2002
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