About “Letter on the Blind”
In Letter on the Blind for the Use of those who can see, Denis Diderot takes on the question of visual perception, a subject that experienced a resurgence of interest at the time due to the success of medical procedures allowing surgeons to operate on cataracts and certain cases of blindness from birth. Speculations were then numerous about the nature and use of vision, and how perception, habit, and experience allow individuals to identify forms, perceive distances, measure volumes, or distinguish realistic art from reality. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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- 1749
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