Principles of Cerebral Mechanics
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Author: Charles Cros
A visionary treatise on perception from the extraordinary polymath Charles Cros—poet, friend to Rimbaud and Verlaine, and inventor of color photography and the phonograph.Principles of Cerebral Mechanics was first presented by Charles Cros in 1872. Setting out to understand the mechanics of perception (which were too small to study directly at the time), Cros instead attempted to reverse-engineer the sensory organs. With this ambitious essay, Cros turned to conceptualising the technology of the senses themselves. His previous inventions in the realms of audio recording and colour photography had focused on technology for the senses. Rather than focussing on the transmission of colour to the retina, he instead attempted to conceive of how colour was transmitted from the retina to the brain.By approaching the human brain as a 'mechanism of registration', Cros's essay can be set alongside the groundbreaking work of such revolutionary figures who transformed modern vision as Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge.
ISBN 9781939663795. Wakefield Press. pb. 120 pages. 15 b/w ills. 11.4 x 17.8 cm.
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A visionary treatise on perception from the extraordinary polymath Charles Cros—poet, friend to Rimbaud and Verlaine, and inventor of color photography and the phonograph.Principles of Cerebral Mechanics was first presented by Charles Cros in 1872. Setting out to understand the mechanics of perception (which were too small to study directly at the time), Cros instead attempted to reverse-engineer the sensory organs. With this ambitious essay, Cros turned to conceptualising the technology of the senses themselves. His previous inventions in the realms of audio recording and colour photography had focused on technology for the senses. Rather than focussing on the transmission of colour to the retina, he instead attempted to conceive of how colour was transmitted from the retina to the brain.By approaching the human brain as a 'mechanism of registration', Cros's essay can be set alongside the groundbreaking work of such revolutionary figures who transformed modern vision as Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge.
ISBN 9781939663795. Wakefield Press. pb. 120 pages. 15 b/w ills. 11.4 x 17.8 cm.
available