William P Germano
1) Eye chart
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 0Desert nomads tested their vision by distinguishing a pair of stars. But we have since created more disquieting ways to test the strength of the eyes. Reading the eye chart is an exercise in failure, since it only gets interesting when you cannot read any further. It is the opposite of interpretative reading, like one does with literature. When...
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