The Dark Lantern: A Historical Study of Sight in Shakespeare, Webster, and Middleton |
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... extramission theory and its related assumptions about vision , from Empedocles and onwards , and then turn to an extended consideration of the camera obscura as a model of the eye . What is at stake when a culture sub- stitutes for its ...
... extramission theory and its related assumptions about vision , from Empedocles and onwards , and then turn to an extended consideration of the camera obscura as a model of the eye . What is at stake when a culture sub- stitutes for its ...
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... extramission has simply been “ laid to rest " in the late Middle Ages ( Jay 1993 : 31 ) . On the contrary , the persistence of extramission throughout the sixteenth century , inside and outside the realm of perspectiva , can be ...
... extramission has simply been “ laid to rest " in the late Middle Ages ( Jay 1993 : 31 ) . On the contrary , the persistence of extramission throughout the sixteenth century , inside and outside the realm of perspectiva , can be ...
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... extramission ( Schmitt 501 ) . But unlike the theological question if the Pope is Antichrist on earth , to which the expected answer was yes , there is no recorded answer to this query in the university manuscripts . Secondly , while ...
... extramission ( Schmitt 501 ) . But unlike the theological question if the Pope is Antichrist on earth , to which the expected answer was yes , there is no recorded answer to this query in the university manuscripts . Secondly , while ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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