FAH354H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Soft Cell, Egyptian Hall, Natural Magic
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Learning to look: people in different moments in time sees things differently, vision: something that can be incomcated by institution. Education of the eye: teaching people how tot look at the world around them: thse educational initiatives has to do with specific interest that modernise industrial economy. Natural magic book david brewster: make science a political matter, book about how human eye is deceived. Idea being that simple people, pepoepl who are readily decieed who aren"t skeptical are readily subject of political deception. Anonymous, kaleidoscope-mania or the natives astonished: brewster also created kaleidoscope, without proper education everything can be astonishing. Helmholtz: physiological vision: his experiment showed that rules that apply to all procedures are very variable, he recognise that people saw thigs in variety of ways. He talks about how it worked: he demystifies some of the sources of entereainment that had been popular in previous centuries.
