title: Descriptions of visual phenomena from Aristotle to Wheatstone.
abstract: A history of the observational era of vision is presented through selected descriptions of phenomena by natural philosophers from Aristotle to Wheatstone. The descriptions are listed under the headings of optics, colour, subjective visual phenomena, motion perception, eye movements, binocular vision, and space perception.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Wade
mesh_terms: D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy / Q000266:history; D011601:Psychophysics / Q000266:history*; D014785:Vision, Ocular; D014796:Visual Perception