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The Victorian eye：a political history of light and vision in Britain, 1800-1910

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Otter Chris
Published: University of Chicago Press,
Publisher Address: Chicago
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Lighting > Great Britain > History > 19th century
Lighting > Great Britain > History > 20th century
Lighting > Social aspects > Great Britain > History
Lighting > Political aspects > Great Britain > History
Optical engineering > Great Britain > History > 19th century
Visual perception
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century
Carrier Form: x, 382 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780226640761 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226640760 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226640778 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226640779 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: K561
CLC: K561.4
O43-09
Call Number: O43-09/O898
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index.
Light, vision, and power -- The Victorian eye : the physiology, sociology, and spatiality of vision, 1800-1900 -- Oligoptic engineering : light and the Victorian city -- The age of inspectability : vision, space, and the Victorian city -- The government of light : gasworks, gaslight, and photometry -- Technologies of illumination, 1870-1910 -- Securing perception : assembling electricity networks -- Patterns of perception.

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