Linking binocular images
Ian P. Howard, Brian Rogers · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2008
This chapter reviews the history of the subject to the early twentieth century. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2.1 discusses the history of visual science, covering the Greeks; the Arabs; Europe to the eighteenth century; the microscopic structure of the visual system; the discovery of cortical visual areas; the discovery of perspective; the advent of instruments; and the empiricist-nativist controversy. Section 2.2 deals with the history of binocular vision, covering Ptolemy on binocular vision; Alhazen on binocular vision; Europe to the eighteenth century; the horopter; and the physiology of stereopsis. Section 2.3 discusses the history of visual display systems, covering early display systems; the advent of the stereoscope; stereophotography; and stereoscopic movies.