Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory by Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory

Suzanne Conklin Akbari

375 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact not only on medieval science but also on theories o...

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