| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
Introduction: on questioning blindess and what the blind 'see' -- 'Seeing with the hands': Descartes, blindness, and vision -- 'Suppose a man born blind ... ': cubes and spheres, hands and eyes -- Objects that 'touch'd his eyes': surgical experiments in the recovery of vision -- Voltaire, Buffon, and blindness in France -- The testimony of blind men: Diderot's Lettre -- Reading with the fingers: tactile signs and the possibilities for a language of touch -- Seeing with the tongue: sight through other means -- Blindness, empathy, and 'feeling seeing': literary accounts of blind experience |
| Summary |
This book seeks to answer why there has there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind see' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Blind -- History
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Visual perception -- History
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Touch -- History
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Blindness.
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Touch.
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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Visual perception.
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Blindness
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Touch
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Philosophy, Medical
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Touch Perception
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Visual Perception
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Visually Impaired Persons -- history
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blindness.
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touch.
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visual perception.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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Medicine -- Philosophy
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Blindness
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Touch
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Blind
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Visual perception
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474405331 |
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1474405339 |
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9781474405348 |
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1474405347 |
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