Drawing on a body of learning that ranges over antique philsophy, theology, science and optics as well as the history of art, the author produces a type of arch... » 

Drawing on a body of learning that ranges over antique philsophy, theology, science and optics as well as the history of art, the author produces a type of archaeology of Western representation. He demonsrates how the perceptual schema of each historical culture or epoch is unique. «