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Idomenian Vision: The Empirical Basis of Thomas Reid’s Geometry of Visibles
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-014-9287-yAbstract
Thomas Reid (1720–1796) claims to have learned of Idomenians, “an order of beings” in “sublunary regions” whose visual system is very much like ours except that they could detect only the direction of rays reaching their eyes, not the distance of origin. The properties of Idomenian vision are here examined in the light of the physiological optics of Reid’s time and of the scientific developments that have since augmented our knowledge of the discipline.
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