The story of the human eye, vision, human perception, and how we see the world continues
to intrigue the realms of philosophy, psychology, and ophthalmology. But whether it
was the 17th-century philosopher René Descartes and his theories of the brain s pineal
gland representing the location of the human soul, which palaeontologists later described
as an ancestral “third eye”, or modern psychology s attempts to explain perception
beyond physical visual function, the eye and its relation to how we make sense of
the world still remains poorly understood.
Co-curated by Laurie Britton Newell and Ligaya Salazar, ‘In Plain Sight’ at the Wellcome Collection takes a journey back to revolutions in invention, spiritual understandings of vision and the routes to understanding enviroments that develop from visual impairment
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