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The first systematic evaluation and rebuttal of Berkeley's influential theory. Bailey conclusively argued that infants must be able to discriminate objects on the basis of sight alone, contra Berkeley's belief that touch would also be required. So, whereas Berkeley and just about everybody else before Bailey deemed perception to consist of naive sensation followed by an inference, Bailey—à la the later Gestalt Psychologists—held that perception was unitary. See the excellent discussion in Nick Pastore's "Samuel Bailey's Critique of Berkeley's Theory of Vision" in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences I #4, pp. 321-337. Pastore notes that Bailey's method was phenomenological before there was a phenomenological psychology.A businessman, economist, and banker, Bailey more or less specialized in refuting widely held views in economics, psychology, philosophy, literary criticism, and political & social reform. One of his first publications was an 1825 critique of Ricardo's theory of value. His rebuttal of Berkeley did not have the influence in the 19th century that it should have. Both John Stuart Mill and J. F. Ferrier published scathing reviews of Bailey's book, the former in the Westminster Review and the latter in Blackwood's Magazine, which seem to have convinced most readers to ignore the book.
Sadoff Catalog p. 19; Brittain p. 11.
Behr was Director of the University Eye Clinic in Hamburg. This is a detailed neurophthalmological study of eye disorders and their differential diagnostic significance in the neurological disorders listed in the title.
Volume 13 deals entirely with the comparative neurology of hearing, vision, and vocalization.
Published in 14 volumes from 1857 to 1881 Edward's great work on comparative neurology is virtually never found complete. All the volumes are scarce — OCLC records only volume 11.
Ferree was Director of the Research Laboratory of Physiological Optics at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Collects 63 offprints published by members of the laboratory.
Descriptions of the epigraphical remains for 110 Roman eye-doctors, with citations for the source of information.
GM-5 1513; Cushing H231; Waller 4299; Heirs of Hippocrates 1887; Wozniak Body & Mind #41 & pp. 42-43 [all the 1st German]. Translation of the 1909-11 3rd revised edition.
- "Because Helmholtz's name is linked so closely with physics and electrophysiology, it is sometimes forgotten that he was a physician who held posts at a number of prominent medical schools. It was during his tenure at Heidelberg that this monumental treatise on optics was written. Originally issued in parts between 1856 and 1866, the work provided the first real descriptoin of optical physiology including the mechanism of accomodation, the phenomenon of color vision, and the measurement of lens curvature" [Heirs].
- This and Helmholtz's 1863 Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen "defined the problematic for the experimental psychology of visual and auditory perception for decades to follow. In the Optik Helmholtz extended Müller's doctrine of the specific energies of nerves to offer a comprehensive theory of color vision and a famous unconscious inference theory of perception. In the theory of color vision, Helmholtz reasoned that just as the differences between sensations of sound and light reflect the specific qualities of auditory and visual nerves, sensations of color may depend on different kinds of nerves within the visual system. Since the laws of color mixture suggest that virtually all hues can be obtained by various combinations of three primary colors, it seemed to Helmholtz that the perceived hue, brightness, and saturation of color must be derived from varying activity in three primary kinds of nerve fibers in the eye.
- In his theory of perception, Helmholtz started from the recognition that Müller's doctrine of specific nerve energies implied the fact that sensations do not provide direct access to objects and events but only serve the mind as signs of reality. Perception, on this view, requires an active, unconscious, automatic, logical process on the part of the perceiver which utilizes the information provided by sensation to infer the properties of external objects and events. In this regard, Helmholtz anticipated much of later top-down cognitive psychology" [Wozniak pp. 42-43].
Cordasco 00-1613. Hubbell was professor of clinical ophthalmology in the University of Buffalo and the first historian of American ophthalmology.
Igersheimer was chief physician at the University Eye Clinic in Halle.
University of Upsala inaugural dissertation.
A German physiologist famous for his contributions to the study of vision, Kries greatly influenced work in the experimental psychology of sensation. This is his last book & his only general treatise on sensation. Boring 1950 p. 423.
Contains 8 papers on Purkyne & 19th century physiology; 4 on vision & psychophysiology; 7 on nerve cells and fibres (including Eccles' "The Purkyne Cell: Its Physiological Properties and Performance"; 6 on structure and function.
OCLC records six copies: Yale; Universities of Miami, Chicago, & Wisconsin; Countway; Linkoping Stadsbibliotek. University of Uppsala dissertation in ophthalmology.
One of the great French manuals of neuro-ophthalmological pathology. Lapersonne was one of the leading French ophthalmologists.
OCLC records only two copies: Univ Wisconsin Madison & Linkoping Stadsbibliotek. The author's inaugural dissertation in ophthalmology.
DSB XI:20-22; Boring Sensation & Perception, especially p. 190; Zusne Biographical Dict. of Psychology p. 340. Published in six sections, each with separate titlepage and pagination. 1: Persistance des impressions sur la retiné.—2: Couleurs accidentelles ordinaires de succession.—3: Images qui succèdent à la contemplation d'objets d'un grand éclat ou même d'objets blancs bien éclaires.—4: Irradiation.—5: Phénomènes ordinaires de contraste.—6: Ombres colorées. [and] Supplément à l'ouvrage entier, comprenant l'année 1877. Two additional supplements appeared in volumes 43 (1882) & 45 (1884) of the same journal, extending the bibliography through 1882. Each section is arranged in two parts: An analytical bibliography of works through the year 1800, often with intricate discussions (the longest being his 11-page exposition & discussion in the second section of Robert Waring Darwin's "New Experiments on the Ocular Spectra of Light and Colours" in the Phil. Trans. for 1786). Part two of each section lists 19th century publications, with brief indications of their content ranging from a few words to a sentence. Much more than a bibliography, this is a still essential history of the study of visual perception by an important contributor to the field.A pioneer Belgian psychophysiologist, Plateau contributed significantly to a number of fields, including mathematics, the study of magnetism, and molecular forces. It was, however, the study of visual perception that occupied him across his long professional life, beginning with his 1829 dissertation in which he showed that a visual impression fades to bare sensibility in about a third of a second. Inspired by a paper of Faraday's, he invented in 1832 one of the earliest stroboscopes, which he called a "phénakistiscope" and which stands in a direct line leading to the invention of motion pictures. Around the same time he studied optical illusions and the phenomena of accidental colors and irradiation, publishing an important paper on the subject in 1834. Plateau was also one of the first to attempt to measure sense distance, presenting artists with white & black papers and asking them to produce a color midway between the two. In 1841 Plateau went blind, a delayed consequence of his having stared at the sun for 25 seconds in an optical experiment in 1829. Unfazed, he continued working and publishing until his death in 1883.
Contains a 62 page bibliography.
Cordasco 00-3635.
The first book in English on neurophthalmology. The 24 papers include contributions by Spiller, C. K. Mills, Casey Wood, Edward Jackson, E. W. Taylor, Dercum, Bernard Sachs, C. W. Burr, T. H. Weisenburg, de Schweinitz, Posey, et al.
Rea was ophthalmic surgeon to West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
GM 3924.2 With resumés in German and French and a bibliography of 817 items. First complete description of "Refsum's disease," an inherited disorder of lipid metabolism. Refsum published several preliminary descriptions, the first of which was "Heredoataxia hemelaropica polyneuritiformis" in Nord. med. 28: 2682-2686.Professor of neurology successively at Bergen & Oslo and president for eight years of the World Federation of Neurologists, Refsum had trained under Monrad-Kohn. He pioneered the study of neurogenetics.
Wade Perception and Illusion: Historical Perspectives, pp. 110-113 & 116-118; Boring Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology, pp. 285-287; Zusne Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, p. 460; Zone Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952, p. 12 et seq.; DSB XIV: 289-291. The first description of stereopsis. Wheatstone had invented in 1832 two kinds of stereoscope, one using reflecting mirrors and the other refracting prisms. In this paper he described and illustrated only the mirror stereoscope. This is also the first appearance of the word in print: "The frequent reference I shall have occasion to make to this instrument, will render it convenient to give it a specific name, I therefore propose that it be called a Stereoscope, to indicate its property of representing solid figures" [page 374]. Not many papers are the undisputed origin of important developments in unrelated fields, but this is one, for both the history of 3-D movies and experimentation in the psychophysiology of vision date from Wheatstone's paper. As Nicholas J. Wade observed, "The stereoscope, perhaps more than any other invention, ushered in the era of experimentation to vision" [p. 116]. In his 2007 book Ray Zone cites Wheatstone's paper as the beginning of the tradition that led to 3-D movies.Although he had no scientific training and his background was in the construction of musical instruments, Wheatstone "was an experimenter and pioneering inventor in acoustics, optics, electricity, and telegraphy" [DSB]. He was appointed to the chair of experimental philosophy at King's College, London in 1834 at the age of 32. He wrote no books and published most of his discoveries in the Philosophical Transactions.
Hirsch 20016. The definitive early work.
Contains 63 papers including 5 papers by Jonas Friedenwald and one by Wilmer himself.
Blake p. 499; Hirsch VI: 375; Waller 10493; Osler 4298 (1780 2nd edition only). "The first complete study of the anatomy of the human eye, including the first description of the 'zonule of Zinn' and the 'annulus of Zinn' [GM 1484]. "Zinn, one of Haller's best pupils at Göttingen, became professor of medicine there. Although he died very young, he produced this important book on the anatomy of the eye, which is a fundamental work in the history of ophthalmology" [Heirs of Hippocrates #966].Section 2: Vision, Ophthalmology, Neurophthalmology
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