
HoP 132 - Eye of the Beholder - Theories of Vision
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle's Theory of Vision
Aristotle's theory of eyesight was criticised by some ancient Christians. John Philoponus said Aristotle doesn't solve that most basic of questions, why can we only see what is in front of us? Much better positioned to deal with this problem were authors who applied the tools of geometry to explain vision. The tradition of geometrical optics begins just after Aristotle with the work of Euclid.
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