Seeing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World (Transculturalisms, 1400-1700)

by Dana Leibsohn (Author), JeanetteFavrotPeterson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $173.42

  What were the possibilities and limits of vision in the early modern world? Drawing upon experiences forged in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the author argues that distinctive ways of habituating the eyes in the early modern period had epistemic consequences: in the realm of politics, daily practice and the imaginary.