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Vision -- Early works to 1800

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• Vision
• Senses and sensation -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Description de la Vision (in French; London: Shorn, 1776), by Peter Degravers, illust. by J. Dezauche (page images at NIH)
• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (4th edition), by George Berkeley (HTML at York)
• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (1732 and 1709 editions), by George Berkeley (multiple formats in Ireland)
• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, by George Berkeley (Gutenberg text)
• The Theory of Vision, Vindicated and Explained (Cambridge and London: Macmillan, 1860), by George Berkeley, ed. by H. V. H. Cowell (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• What Does the Honeybee See? And How Do We Know? A Critique of Scientific Reason (2009), by G. Adrian Horridge (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Webvision: The Organization of the Retina and Visual System, ed. by Helga Kolb, Eduardo Fernandez, and Ralph Nelson (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• Use Your Own Eyes (1937), by William Benjamin MacCracken (HTML at central-fixation.com)

• Molecular Vision (1995-) (full serial archives)

• Molecular Vision (1995-) (full serial archives)

• Vision and Audition in Driving (report prepared for National Highway Traffic Safeety Administration; 1974), by Robert L. Henderson and Albert Burg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Emergent Techniques for Assessment of Visual Performance, by National Research Council Committee on Vision (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Binocular Vision and Ocular Motility: Theory and Management of Strabismus (6th edition; St. Louis: Mosby, c2002), by Gunter K. Von Noorden and E. C. Campos (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at cybersight.org)

• Night Vision: Current Research and Future Directions, by National Research Council Committee on Vision (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Species, Phantasms, and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in The Canterbury Tales (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Carolyn P. Collette (page images at HathiTrust)

• Emergent Techniques for Assessment of Visual Performance, by National Research Council Committee on Vision (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Document Image Analysis (electronic executive briefing edition, from authors' original files; first published 1997), by Lawrence O'Gorman and Rangachar Kasturi (PDF at usf.edu)

• Protecting Visibility in National Parks and Wilderness Areas (1993), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Digital Light (London: Open Humanities Press, 2015), ed. by Sean Cubitt, Daniel Palmer, and Nathaniel Tkacz (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• More on Oxymoron, by Patrick Hughes (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Guarding the Eye in the Age of Show (2001 edition), by Ivan Illich (PDF at davidtinapple.com)

• Studies in Visual Communication (early issues titled Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication; 1974-1985) (full serial archives)

• Guarding the Eye in the Age of Show (2001 edition), by Ivan Illich (PDF at davidtinapple.com)

• (A)wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2001), by David R. Castillo (PDF at Purdue)
• La Perspective Curieuse: ou, Magie Artificielle des Effets Merveilleux (in French; Paris: P. Billaine, 1638), by Jean François Nicéron (page images in France)
• Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum (2 volumes, in Latin, published 1692-1700), by Andrea Pozzo, illust. by Vincenzo Mariotti
  • Part 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both parts: page images at HathiTrust

• Procedures for Testing Color Vision (1981), by National Research Council Committee on Vision (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (c2006), by Christopher M. Bishop (PDF at microsoft.com)

• Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines (1994), ed. by David B. Roe and Jay G. Wilpon (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Guide: Speech Recognition Made Fast and Simple (second edition, 2000), by Dan Newman (PDF files at sayican.com)

• Conway's Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction (c2022), by Nathaniel Johnston and Dave Greene (PDF with commentary at conwaylife.com)
• Classical Cellular Automata: Mathematical Theory and Applications (Saarbrucken: Scholar's Press, 2014), by V. Z. Aladʹev (zipped PDF at yandex.com)
• Exploring Discrete Dynamics: The DDLab Manual (Frome, UK: Luniver Press, c2011), by Andrew Wuensche (PDF and page images with commentary in the UK)
• A New Kind of Science (Champaign, IL: Wolfram Media, c2002), by Stephen Wolfram (illustrated HTML at wolframscience.com)
• The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (c2016), by G. 't Hooft (PDF and EPub with commentary at springer.com)
• Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines: The Cellular Programming Approach (electronic edition, c2004), by Moshe Sipper (PDF with commentary via moshesipper.com)
• Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected Papers, by Stephen Wolfram (PDF files at stephenwolfram.com)

• Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2004)
  • PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org
  • page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google

• Cinema of Confinement (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c2019), by Thomas J. Connelly (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications (1922), by Matthew Luckiesh (illustrated HTML with commentary at visualillusion.net)

• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)
• Species, Phantasms, and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in The Canterbury Tales (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Carolyn P. Collette (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Eliot and the Visual Arts (1979), by Hugh Witemeyer (HTML at Victorian Web)

• The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)

• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.