Seeing with the hands : blindness, vision and touch after Descartes /

Seeing with the hands : blindness, vision and touch after Descartes /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Paterson, Mark, 1972- author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Description:	viii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Blind -- History. Visual perception -- History. Touch -- History. Touch Blind Visual perception History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10739120

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Varying Form of Title:	Blindness, vision and touch after Descartes
ISBN:	9781474405317 1474405312 9781474405324 1474405320 9781474405331 1474405339 9781474405348 1474405347
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-221) and index.
Summary:	"Through an unfolding historical, philosophical and literary narrative that includes Locke, Molyneux and Berkeley in Britain, and Diderot, Voltaire and Buffon in France, this book explores how the Molyneux Question and its aftermath has influenced attitudes towards blindness by the sighted, and sensory substitution technologies for the blind and vision impaired, to this day."

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