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 I Newton & n Saunderson
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on Saunderson
It is a little difficult to place these two massive
historical figures. British mathematician Newton wrote anonymously on theological
issues related to visions, and took an Arian, anti-iconic stance that led
to his scientific theory of optics. He then sponsored the blind
mathematician Saunderson, who devised a tactile
geometry and a pioneering “pin dot” language.
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 William
Paulson
Information on Paulson
The US
academic of French history analysed the symbolism of blind people and
blindness at the time of the Enlightenment and the period just after the
revolution in France,
in his seminal work Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Blind in France.
This work concluded that blindness was romanticised as a symbol of
radicalism in French literature.
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Eco
Ancient Greek, Verb, pronounced Ekh-o. The
Transliterated word is Echo. New Testament Greek Lexicon
“[To] have (hold) in the hand, in the sense of wearing, to
have (hold) possession of the mind (refers to alarm, agitating emotions,
etc.), to hold fast keep, to have or comprise or involve, to regard or
consider or hold as.”
Source: http://www.crosswalk.com
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 Martin Jay
Information on Jay
Following on from Paulson, the US philosopher Jay wrote
the seminal piece Downcast Eyes. Concurring with Paulson’s original
arguments, he concluded that French literature and philosophy above all
others had romanticised blindness. In this work, Jay finds that, above
all, as blindness was glorified, sight was actively denigrated as a form
of moral perception.
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 Moishe
Barasch
Information
on Barash
Although not studying the culture of blindness in his major
work, Blindness: The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought, the
Israeli art theorist Barasch investigates how a
greater cultural image of blindness has been developed by religions
through art. From Antiquity to the Renaissance, Barasch
finds that allegories of blindness are complex and most often negative.
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 Yvonne
eriksson
Information
on Eriksson
The Swedish academic Eriksson also has practical experience
of working in this field in her role at the Swedish Library for Talking
Books. She also appears to be the first academic writer to investigate the
history of tactile images in a PhD. She finds that they have an evolving
history as sophisticated, descriptive images.
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Illingworth
Information
on Illingworth
Illingworth was a British teacher in a school for the
blind and a member of the College of Teachers for the Blind at the
beginning of the 20th century. By this time enough of an educational
culture had evolved for him to write his History of the Education of the
Blind. This surveyed literature, handwork, music and the “industrial arts”
education to this point.
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