Author: Joseph GuadetPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
De la condition des aveugles en France
Author: Joseph GuadetBiographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne
Author: Seeing with the Hands
Author: Paterson Mark PatersonPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474405339
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind 'see'Why has there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind 'see'? Is the experience of being blind, as Descartes declared, like 'seeing with the hands'? What happens on the rare occasions when surgery allows previously blind people to see for the very first time? And how did evidence from early experimental surgery inform those philosophical debates about vision and touch? These questions and others were prompted by a question that the Irish scientist, Molyneux, asked an English philosopher, Locke, in 1688, but which was to have implications for British empiricism, French sensationism, and the beginnings of psychology that outlasted the long tail of the Enlightenment. Through an unfolding historical and philosophical narrative the book follows up responses to this question in Britain and France, and considers it as an early articulation of sensory substitution, the substitution of one sense (touch) for another (vision). This concept has influenced attitudes towards blindness, and technologies for the blind and vision impaired, to this day.Key FeaturesUnfolds the history of 'blindness' from 17th century that shades into the beginnings of psychologyQuestions the assumed centrality of vision and the eye in Enlightenment philosophy and scienceTraces the core idea of 'sensory substitution' from hypothetical speculations in the 17th century to present day technologies for the blind and vision impaired
The Blind
Author: Harry BestThe Education of the Blind, a Critical and Historical Survey with Special Reference to the United States of America
Author: Richard Slayton FrenchPublisher:
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Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The Catholic Encyclopedia: Gregory-Infallibility
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
The Catholic Encyclopedia
Author: Charles HerbermannThe Catholic Encyclopedia
Author: Charles George HerbermannPublisher:
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Category : Catholic Church
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800
Author: Stephen W. BrownPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748628967
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Studies the book trade during the age of Fergusson and BurnsOver 40 leading scholars come together in this volume to scrutinise the development and impact of printing, binding, bookselling, libraries, textbooks, distribution and international trade, copyright, piracy, literacy, music publication, women readers, children's books and cookery books.The 18th century saw Scotland become a global leader in publishing, both through landmark challenges to the early copyright legislation and through the development of intricate overseas markets that extended across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Scots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin and Philadelphia amassed fortunes while bringing to international markets classics in medicine and economics by Scottish authors, as well as such enduring works of reference as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Entrepreneurship and a vigorous sense of nationalism brought Scotland from financial destitution at the time of the 1707 Union to extraordinary wealth by the 1790s. Publishing was one of the country's elite new industries.
Nelson's Encyclopaedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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