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[CA & US version]. |
| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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data file rda |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 27, 2019). |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Prologue: 2015; Part One:Becoming: How We See; 1 You See Tomayto, I See Tomarto: The Subjective Art of Seeing; 2 Perfect and Complex: Eyes in Evolution; Part Two: Transforming: The Visual Technologies that Begat History; 3 Stolen from the Gods: Firelight; 4 From the Eye to the Pencil: Art; 5 From Eye to I: Mirrors; 6 Geometry of the Soul: Writing; Part Three: Believing: When We Didn't See; 7 Amongst Barbarians: The Age of the Invisible; 8 Through a Glass, Clearly: Spectacles; Part Four: Observing: The Optical Tools that Made the Modern World |
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9 Gunpowder for the Mind: The Printing Press10 The Eye, Extended: The Telescope; 11 In Love with Night: Industrialised Light; Part Five: Showing: Mass Media and the Conquest of Seeing; 12 Nature's Pencil: Photography; 13 Surpassing Imagination: Moving Images; 14 Seeing, Weaponised: Smartphones; 15 An All-Seeing World; Epilogue: 2019; Notes; Bibliography; Picture Section |
| Summary |
Why do we see the world the way we do? An unusual history of sight across 500 million years. |
| Subject |
World history.
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Visual perception -- History.
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Civilization.
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Inventions -- History.
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Inventions -- Social aspects.
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Civilization.
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civilization.
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Inventions. (OCoLC)fst00977993
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Inventions -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00978016
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Visual perception. (OCoLC)fst01168049
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World history. (OCoLC)fst01181345
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780750992947 (electronic book) |
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