Studies In The History Of Ophthalmology In England Prior To 1800
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Studies In The History Of Ophthalmology In England Prior To 1800
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Author : R. Rutson James
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Studies In The History Of Ophthalmology In England Prior To 1800 written by R. Rutson James and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Medical categories.
Originally published in 1933, this book presents a historical study of ophthalmology in Britain from its earliest phases during the Roman period up until the end of the eighteenth century. Numerous illustrative figures, detailed textual notes and an appendix section are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ophthalmology and its history.
Studies In The History Of Ophthalmology In England Prior To The Year 1800 By R Rutson James
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Author : R. Ruston James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
Studies In The History Of Ophthalmology In England Prior To The Year 1800 By R Rutson James written by R. Ruston James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with categories.
Studies In The History Of Ophthalmology In England
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Author : R. R. James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
Studies In The History Of Ophthalmology In England written by R. R. James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with categories.
The Wonderful Art Of The Eye
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Author : Benvenutus Grassus
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
The Wonderful Art Of The Eye written by Benvenutus Grassus and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Medical categories.
A thirteenth-century treatise on the theory and practice of ophthalmology, this unique work provides a window on what passed for medical knowledge of the eye during the late Middle Ages. Although little is known of the author, Benevenutus Grassus, he seems to have roamed Italy in the early thirteenth century as a medical practitioner specializing in diseases of the eye.
Image Text And Religious Reform In Fifteenth Century England
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Author : Shannon Gayk
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-09-30
Image Text And Religious Reform In Fifteenth Century England written by Shannon Gayk and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on the period between the Wycliffite critique of images and Reformation iconoclasm, Shannon Gayk investigates the sometimes complementary and sometimes fraught relationship between vernacular devotional writing and the religious image. She examines how a set of fifteenth-century writers, including Lollard authors, John Lydgate, Thomas Hoccleve, John Capgrave, and Reginald Pecock, translated complex clerical debates about the pedagogical and spiritual efficacy of images and texts into vernacular settings and literary forms. These authors found vernacular discourse to be a powerful medium for explaining and reforming contemporary understandings of visual experience. In its survey of the function of literary images and imagination, the epistemology of vision, the semiotics of idols, and the authority of written texts, this study reveals a fifteenth century that was as much an age of religious and literary exploration, experimentation, and reform as it was an age of regulation.
The World Through Blunted Sight
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Author : Patrick Trevor-Roper
language : en
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Release Date : 2012-11-01
The World Through Blunted Sight written by Patrick Trevor-Roper and has been published by Souvenir Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Photography categories.
How did faulty or failing eyesight affect the style and technique of writers and artists. How did it affect the way they convey their visual impressions. In a classic study, first published in 1970 and thoroughly revised in 1988, Patrick Trevor-Roper combines his professional knowledge of ophthalmology with his extensive familiarity with art and literature to fascinatingly examine the work of painters, sculptors, poets and prose writers. Looking at the effects of myopia, cataracts, colour blindness, squints and total blindness he speculates on what the impact would have been on artists had they worn glasses. Illustrated with colour reproductions and a wealth of black and white photos, this was a true labour of love from a highly cultured man, erudite and stimulating.
Stumbling Blocks Before The Blind
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Author : Edward Wheatley
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2022-10-20
Stumbling Blocks Before The Blind written by Edward Wheatley and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-20 with History categories.
"Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind offers a cultural geography of medieval blindness that invites us to be more discriminating about how we think of geographies of disability today." ---Christopher Baswell, Columbia University "A challenging, interesting, and timely book that is also very well written . . . Wheatley has researched and brought together a leitmotiv that I never would have guessed was so pervasive, so intriguing, so worthy of a book." ---Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind presents the first comprehensive exploration of a disability in the Middle Ages, drawing on the literature, history, art history, and religious discourse of England and France. It relates current theories of disability to the cultural and institutional constructions of blindness in the eleventh through fifteenth centuries, examining the surprising differences in the treatment of blind people and the responses to blindness in these two countries. The book shows that pernicious attitudes about blindness were partially offset by innovations and ameliorations---social; literary; and, to an extent, medical---that began to foster a fuller understanding and acceptance of blindness. A number of practices and institutions in France, both positive and negative---blinding as punishment, the foundation of hospices for the blind, and some medical treatment---resulted in not only attitudes that commodified human sight but also inhumane satire against the blind in French literature, both secular and religious. Anglo-Saxon and later medieval England differed markedly in all three of these areas, and the less prominent position of blind people in society resulted in noticeably fewer cruel representations in literature. This book will interest students of literature, history, art history, and religion because it will provide clear contexts for considering any medieval artifact relating to blindness---a literary text, a historical document, a theological treatise, or a work of art. For some readers, the book will serve as an introduction to the field of disability studies, an area of increasing interest both within and outside of the academy. Edward Wheatley is Surtz Professor of Medieval Literature at Loyola University, Chicago.
Sight Correction
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Author : Chris Mounsey
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2019-11-28
Sight Correction written by Chris Mounsey and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-28 with History categories.
The debut publication in a new series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction provides an expansive analysis of blindness in eighteenth-century Britain, developing a new methodology for conceptualizing sight impairment. Beginning with a reconsideration of the place of sight correction as both idea and reality in eighteenth-century philosophical debates, Chris Mounsey traces the development of eye surgery by pioneers such as William Read, Mary Cater, and John Taylor, who developed a new idea of medical specialism that has shaped contemporary practices. He then turns to accounts by the visually impaired themselves, exploring how Thomas Gills, John Maxwell, and Priscilla Pointon deployed literature strategically as a necessary response to the inadequacies of Poor Laws to support blind people. Situating blindness philosophically, medically, and economically in the eighteenth century, Sight Correction shows how the lives of both the blind and those who sought to treat them redefined blindness in ways that continue to inform our understanding today.
Health For Sale
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Author : Roy Porter
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1989
Health For Sale written by Roy Porter and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Quacks and quackery categories.
Destined For Distinguished Oblivion
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Author : Nicholas J. Wade
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Destined For Distinguished Oblivion written by Nicholas J. Wade and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Psychology categories.
William Charles Wells (1757-1817) was one of the foremost, and forgotten, American scientists of the eighteenth century. He should be acknowledged as laying the foundations for modern studies of vestibular function as well as eye movements. This book reprints his Essay on single vision with two eyes (1792) and his own Memoir of his life (1818). Wells’ essay on natural selection is reprinted as an Appendix. Wells' experiments and observations on natural phenomena will surprise students of science because of their modernity.