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The science of illusions / Jacques Ninio ; translated by Franklin Philip.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ninio, Jacques.
- Standardized Title:
- Science des illusions. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Hallucinations and illusions.
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Contents:
- Inventory
- A brief history of illusions
- One illusion hides another
- Classifications
- Limits
- Contrasts
- Segregations, fusions
- Completions, creations
- Adaptations
- Constancies
- Reference points
- Arbitrations
- Illusions and culture
- Illusionism
- Artifice and convention
- Illusions of the memory & the mind.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-211).
- ISBN:
- 0801437709
- OCLC:
- 45202034
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