Project Gutenberg 2003-12-01 Public domain in the USA. 200 Berkeley, George 1685 1753 Berkley, George An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision Produced by Col Choat. HTML version by Al Haines. "An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision" by George Berkeley is a philosophical treatise written during the early 18th century. The work delves into the concepts of perception, specifically addressing how we perceive distance, magnitude, and the situation of objects through sight. Berkeley challenges existing theories on vision, particularly those that assert we perceive these aspects through mathematical angles and geometrical lines, instead proposing that our perceptions are rooted in experience and the ideas we associate with them. At the start of the essay, Berkeley outlines his intention to investigate how we perceive distance and magnitude, asserting that distance itself is not directly visible but rather inferred through experiential judgment. He discusses the relationship between our sensory perceptions—particularly how the sensations related to the positions of our eyes and the ensuing visual confusion contribute to our judgments on the size and distance of objects. By drawing on allegorical examples, such as the perspective of someone born blind, Berkeley illustrates that our understanding of objects' placement and identity is fundamentally experiential and not inherent in the act of seeing itself; rather, it is shaped by our interactions with tangible reality over time. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 49.3 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Vision -- Early works to 1800 B Text Category: Philosophy & Ethics 208145 2025-07-02T11:58:57.946506 text/html 194836 2020-12-28T06:42:21 text/html 148185 2025-07-02T11:59:03.906411 application/epub+zip 150628 2025-07-02T11:59:00.980535 application/epub+zip 135067 2025-07-02T11:58:59.866423 application/epub+zip 333441 2025-07-02T11:59:06.039368 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 322408 2025-07-02T11:59:03.225409 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 289536 2022-09-03T04:04:15.009155 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 181973 2025-07-02T11:58:57.559492 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 181908 2020-12-28T06:42:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18345 2025-07-02T11:59:06.162385 application/rdf+xml 18550 2025-07-02T11:59:00.359440 image/jpeg 4215 2025-07-02T11:59:00.113455 image/jpeg 62538 2020-12-28T06:42:21 application/octet-stream application/zip 60352 2020-12-28T06:42:21 application/octet-stream application/zip 147790 2025-07-02T11:58:57.962527 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia