[PDF] Sense Of Sight The eBook

Author : Michael Squire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1317515382

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It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history, visual culture, literature and philosophy of classical antiquity. Examining how the Greeks and Romans interpreted what they saw, the collection also considers sight in relation to the other senses. This volume brings together a number of interdisciplinary perspectives to deliver a broad and balanced coverage of this subject. Contributors explore the cultural, social and intellectual backdrops that gave rise to ancient theories of seeing, from Archaic Greece through to the advent of Christianity in late antiquity. This series of specially commissioned thematic chapters demonstrate how theories about sight informed Graeco-Roman philosophy, science, poetry rhetoric and art. The collection also reaches beyond its Graeco-Roman visual framework, showcasing how ancient ideas have influenced the longue durée of western sensory thinking. Richly illustrated throughout, including a section of color plates, Sight and the Ancient Senses is a wide-ranging introduction to ancient theories of seeing which will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of classical antiquity.

Author : Siamak Najarian
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 007160152X

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Master Artificial Tactile Sensing Design for Biomedical Engineering Applications Filled with high-quality photographs and illustrations, including some in color, this definitive guide details the design and manufacturing of artificial tactile systems and their applications in surgical procedures. Artificial Tactile Sensing in Biomedical Engineering explains the fundamentals of the human sense of touch and the latest techniques for artificially replicating it. The book describes the mechanistic principles of static and dynamic tactile sensors and discusses cutting-edge biomedical applications, including minimally invasive surgery, tumor detection, robotic surgery, and surgical simulations. Artificial Tactile Sensing in Biomedical Engineering covers: Capacitive, magnetic, inductive, conductive elastomeric, optical, and thermal sensors Strain gauge and piezoelectric sensors Tactile sensing in surgery and palpation Tactile image information through palpation Tumor detection via artificial tactile sensing Estimating tumor parameters using the finite element method and an artificial neural network Determination of mechanical properties of biological tissues Tactile sensing in remote and robotic surgery Haptics application in surgical simulation

Author : Mari Schuh
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1612112994

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"Introductory text explains the function and experience of the sense of sight. Intended for grades two through five"--Provided by publisher.

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0307794210

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With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, a preeminent critic of our time responds to the profound questions posed by the visual world. For when John Berger writes about Cubism, he writes not only of Braque, Léger, Picasso, and Gris, but of that incredible moment early in this century when the world converged around a marvelouis sense of promise. When he looks at the Modigiliani, he sees a man's infinite love revealed in the elongated lines of the painted figure. Ranging from the Renaissance to the conflagration of Hiroshima; from the Bosphorus to Manhattan; from the woodcarvers of a French village to Goya, Dürer, and Van Gogh; and from private experiences of love and of loss to the major political upheavals of our time, The Sense of Sight encourages us to see with the same breadth, courage, and moral engagement that its author does.

Author : P.K. Hallinan
Publisher : WorthyKids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780824916985

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In THE LOOKING BOOK, beloved author P. K. Hallinan uses lively rhyming verse to invite children to delight in the wonders of the world around them. Given a pair of "lookers" by their mom, two boys venture outside to see what they can find. To their surprise, they discover "tree-things and bee-things and roses and weeds . . . small things and tall things and flowers with seeds," right in their own backyard. Before long, the boys realize that they don't need the lookers at all. Whimsical illustrations and sturdy pages will make this book a favorite with young explorers.

Author : Aliki
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Picture books for children
ISBN : 9780606369848

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Discover how you use your five senses, sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch to learn about the world. In this classic Level 1 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out picture book, Aliki uses simple, engaging text and colorful artwork to show young readers how they

Author : Vicki Cobb
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761317050

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Explains how the sense of sight works and offers simple experiments to investigate.

Author : Rachel Neis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1107292530

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This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately from the first to seventh centuries). It tracks the extent and effect to which the rabbis living in the Greco-Roman and Persian worlds sought to appropriate, recast and discipline contemporaneous understandings of sight. Sight had a crucial role to play in the realms of divinity, sexuality and gender, idolatry and, ultimately, rabbinic subjectivity. The rabbis lived in a world in which the eyes were at once potent and vulnerable: eyes were thought to touch objects of vision, while also acting as an entryway into the viewer. Rabbis, Romans, Zoroastrians, Christians and others were all concerned with the protection and exploitation of vision. Employing many different sources, Professor Neis considers how the rabbis engaged varieties of late antique visualities, along with rabbinic narrative, exegetical and legal strategies, as part of an effort to cultivate and mark a 'rabbinic eye'.

Author : Diane Ackerman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307763315

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Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth. “Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in.” —The New York Times

Author : Sue Hurwitz
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823950557

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Explains the sense of sight, including how the eye works.