Background
Wade, Nicholas James was born on March 27, 1942 in Retford, England. Son of William John and Sarah Ellen (Ostick) Wade.
( William Charles Wells (1757-1817) was one of the foremo...)
William Charles Wells (1757-1817) was one of the foremost, and forgotten, American scientists of the eighteenth century. He should be acknowledged as laying the foundations for modern studies of vestibular function as well as eye movements. This book reprints his Essay on single vision with two eyes (1792) and his own Memoir of his life (1818). Wells’ essay on natural selection is reprinted as an Appendix. Wells' experiments and observations on natural phenomena will surprise students of science because of their modernity.
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(We are all fascinated by physiognomy, intrigued by the ap...)
We are all fascinated by physiognomy, intrigued by the appearance of the people we admire. These perceptual portraits of more than 100 thinkers who have fashioned our understanding of mind and behavior provide an alternative view of the history of psychology that is both pleasing and puzzling. Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Pierre Broca, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Ruth Benedict, Allen Newell, David Marr and scores of others whose ideas have made psychology an empirical discipline emerge from motifs specifically drawn by the author or derived from a figure or text in one of the portrayed person's books, or an apparatus he or she invented. The ingenious treatment of portrait/motifs often challenges the viewer to discern the faces embedded in them and always tells us more than how these students of mind looked: these portraits reflect their thoughts and lead us to forage further into their lives and legacies. The portraits and motifs have been manipulated in a variety of ways, using graphic and photographic procedures. They are arranged in order of birth date in a format of one page of descriptive text facing a full-page perceptual portrait. The text presents a brief synopsis of the person portrayed, that person's ideas, and the source of both the portrait and the motif. Interrelations between people are stressed, bringing to light common threads that run through the work of particular groups and adding yet another level to this unique gallery of psychology's pioneers.
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(In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how...)
In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how we see pictures and how they can communicate messages to us, both directly and indirectly by making allusions to objects in space or to stored images in our minds. Dr Wade provides fascinating examples of pictures that communicate hidden messages, either by implying something else, or by a shape or portrait which is carried covertly within another design. He analyses image processing stages in vision, demonstrating that the various stages may be related to styles in representational art. He shows how the way we have been taught to look at and recognise objects, affects the way we see them. The book lavishly illustrates with original examples of visual allusions and includes detailed practical advice on how photographers and designers can create them. Essential reading for photographers, designers, artists, people in film and television, and anyone involved in visual science , visual communication and advertising.
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Wade, Nicholas James was born on March 27, 1942 in Retford, England. Son of William John and Sarah Ellen (Ostick) Wade.
Bachelor of Science, University Edinburgh, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University, 1968.
Lecturer, reader, U. Dundee, United Kingdom, 1970-1991; professor, U. Dundee, since 1991.
(In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how...)
( Does the world appear the same to everyone? Does what w...)
( William Charles Wells (1757-1817) was one of the foremo...)
(Vision is our most dominant sense, from which we derive m...)
(We are all fascinated by physiognomy, intrigued by the ap...)
Fellow Royal Society Edinburgh.
Married Christine Whetton. Children: Rebecca Jane, Helena Kate.