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Johann Joseph Oppel (1855) on Geometrical–Optical Illusions: A Translation and Commentary

The term geometrical–optical illusions was coined by Johann Joseph Oppel (1815–1894) in 1855 in order to distinguish spatial distortions of size and orientation from the broader illusions of the senses. We present a translation of Oppel’s article and a commentary on the material described in it. Opp...

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Autores principales: Wade, Nicholas J., Todorović, Dejan, Phillips, David, Lingelbach, Bernd
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5484433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28694957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669517712724
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description The term geometrical–optical illusions was coined by Johann Joseph Oppel (1815–1894) in 1855 in order to distinguish spatial distortions of size and orientation from the broader illusions of the senses. We present a translation of Oppel’s article and a commentary on the material described in it. Oppel did much more than give a name to a class of visual spatial distortions. He examined a variety of figures and phenomena that were precursors of later, named illusions, and attempted to quantify and interpret them.
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spelling pubmed-54844332017-07-10 Johann Joseph Oppel (1855) on Geometrical–Optical Illusions: A Translation and Commentary Wade, Nicholas J. Todorović, Dejan Phillips, David Lingelbach, Bernd Iperception Translation The term geometrical–optical illusions was coined by Johann Joseph Oppel (1815–1894) in 1855 in order to distinguish spatial distortions of size and orientation from the broader illusions of the senses. We present a translation of Oppel’s article and a commentary on the material described in it. Oppel did much more than give a name to a class of visual spatial distortions. He examined a variety of figures and phenomena that were precursors of later, named illusions, and attempted to quantify and interpret them. SAGE Publications 2017-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5484433/ /pubmed/28694957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669517712724 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Lingelbach, Bernd
Johann Joseph Oppel (1855) on Geometrical–Optical Illusions: A Translation and Commentary
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5484433/
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