Article ID: CBB000079468

Euclid and the skeptic: A paper on vision, doubt, geometry, light and drunkenness (1998)

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Description “While it overtly focuses on purely geometrical considerations, the Euclidean model of optics nonetheless provides support for certain views about the nature of vision and the physics of light. Moreover, by offering a model in which the image received is not thought to be a perspicuous mirroring of the object seen, Euclid may have helped promote a view of perception as something reconstructed from information received, not as a mere form transferred into the eye.”


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Authors & Contributors
Takahashi, Ken'ichi
Euclid
Theisen, Wilfred R.
Brownson, C. D.
Camerota, Filippo
Frangenberg, Thomas
Journals
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Publishers
Kyushu Univ. Press
Springer
Concepts
Optics
Mathematics
Transmission of texts
Geometry
Physics
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
People
Euclid
al-Kindī, Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqub ibn Isḥāq
Danti, Egnazio
Kepler, Johannes
Peña, Joannes
Vignola
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Renaissance
15th century
16th century
18th century
Places
Greece
Iran
Rome (Italy)
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