Letter on the Blind
In Letter on the Blind for the Use of those who can see (French: Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient), Denis Diderot takes on the question of visual perception, a subject that, at the time, experienced a resurgence of interest due to the success of medical procedures that allowed surgeons to operate on cataracts (demonstrated in 1747 by Jacques Daviel) and certain cases of blindness from birth. Speculations were then numerous upon what the nature and use of vision was, and how much perception, habit, and experience allow individuals to identify forms in space, to perceive distances and to measure volumes, or to distinguish a realistic work of art from reality.
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Letter on the Blind
In Letter on the Blind for the Use of those who can see (French: Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient), Denis Diderot takes on the question of visual perception, a subject that, at the time, experienced a resurgence of interest due to the success of medical procedures that allowed surgeons to operate on cataracts (demonstrated in 1747 by Jacques Daviel) and certain cases of blindness from birth. Speculations were then numerous upon what the nature and use of vision was, and how much perception, habit, and experience allow individuals to identify forms in space, to perceive distances and to measure volumes, or to distinguish a realistic work of art from reality.
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Brief über die Blinden zum Geb ...... stische-atheistische Position.
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In Letter on the Blind for the ...... fter apparent to him by sight.
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La Lettera sui ciechi ad uso d ...... 'interpretazione della natura.
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Lettre sur les aveugles à l’us ...... de Denis Diderot paru en 1749.
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Brief über die Blinden zum Geb ...... stische-atheistische Position.
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In Letter on the Blind for the ...... stic work of art from reality.
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La Lettera sui ciechi ad uso d ...... altà da un prodotto artistico.
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Lettre sur les aveugles à l’us ...... de Denis Diderot paru en 1749.
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Brief über die Blinden zum Gebrauch für die Sehenden
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Letter on the Blind
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Lettera sui ciechi ad uso di coloro che vedono
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Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient
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Letter on the Blind, for the Usage of Those Who Can See
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Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient
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