An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
By George Berkeley
12 Oct, 2019
George Berkeley's "Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision" reads like the ramblings of a madman and he was, in fact, dismissed as such in his time-but his discussion of perception, distance, parallelism, magnitude, and other elements of vision, present
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George Berkeley's "Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision" reads like the ramblings of a madman and he was, in fact, dismissed as such in his time-but his discussion of perception, distance, parallelism, magnitude, and other elements of vision, presented as 160 suppositions, is now recognized as a foundational work on the theory of optics. This strange work will intrigue readers of philosophy and scientific theory. Less