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Contents

                               

	List of illustrations	page viii
	Preface	xiii
	Introduction: The importance of perspective and the metaphor of the arrow in the eye	1
1	The elements of perspective	17
2	Interlude: Brunelleschi's peepshow and the invention of perspective	32
3	The effectiveness of Brunelleschi's peepshow	39
4	The robustness of perspective	52
5	Illusion, delusion, collusion, and perceptual paradox	65
6	Perceiving the window in order to see the world	87
7	The bounds of perspective: marginal distortions	104
8	Why was the Brunelleschi peephole abandoned?	127
9	The psychology of egocenters	150
10	The invention of perspective and the evolution of art	162
	References	174
	Figure acknowledgments and sources	182
	Index	187