Beliefs about Seeing: The Moral Technology of Optics in Early China
Michael Nylan - Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT
6511
This illustrated lecture surveys optical theories in early Greece as well as the current neuroscience on perception, both for their intrinsic interest and for the contrasts they provide with the moral technology of optics in early China, as expressed in two canonical works, the
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