The Dark Lantern: A Historical Study of Sight in Shakespeare, Webster, and Middleton |
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Page 87
... Hobbes feels we must understand how the eye sees . Towards the end of the second chapter of this study , we will examine a remarkable chapter in this book where Hobbes employs optical theory as a weapon in religious politics , as the ...
... Hobbes feels we must understand how the eye sees . Towards the end of the second chapter of this study , we will examine a remarkable chapter in this book where Hobbes employs optical theory as a weapon in religious politics , as the ...
Page 88
... Hobbes too seems to have wavered - and influenced Mersenne - when trying to explain why the eye focusses only on isolated parts of the visual field and the rest becomes blurred ( Crombie 1990 : 236 ) . Perhaps , in the case of Hobbes ...
... Hobbes too seems to have wavered - and influenced Mersenne - when trying to explain why the eye focusses only on isolated parts of the visual field and the rest becomes blurred ( Crombie 1990 : 236 ) . Perhaps , in the case of Hobbes ...
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... Hobbes introduces his argument in the same way that he began his entire philosophical argument in Leviathan : with an account of the nature of sense perception . Before we can grasp the nature of super- stition we must thus understand ...
... Hobbes introduces his argument in the same way that he began his entire philosophical argument in Leviathan : with an account of the nature of sense perception . Before we can grasp the nature of super- stition we must thus understand ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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