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Concept

Depth Perception

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  • An artist measures a model of the human body from a distance with one eye shut; representing the faculty of perception in extended space in phrenological classification. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

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    The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the parts associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with the faculties of external perception and its memory. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

    | Date: 1901 | Reference: 28018i
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    The eye in health and disease : with an account of the optometer, for the adaptation of glasses, for impaired, aged, or defective sight being the substance of lectures delivered at the Central London ophthalmic hospital / by Alfred Smee.

    Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. | Date: 1854
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    On the invention of stereoscopic glasses for single pictures : with preliminary observations on the stereoscope, and on the physiology of stereoscopic vision / by T. Wharton Jones.

    Jones, Thomas Wharton, 1808-1891. | Date: 1860
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    Das stereoscopische Sehen nach Schieloperationen : inaugural-Dissertation verfasst und der hohn medicinischen Facultät der kgl. Julius-Maximillians-Yniversität Würzburg zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde / von Jos. Engel in Wien.

    Bielefeld, Isidor. | Date: 1882
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    Beiträge zur Physiologie / von Ewald Hering.

    Hering, Ewald, 1834-1918. | Date: 1863-1864
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