Recommended Reading & Gazing

Nick Wade has published several books covering the science, art and history of visual illusions. Many of these contain artwork and illusions similar to those shown in the Opprints gallery.

Vision and Art with Two Eyes (2023)
Visual Allusions: Pictures of Perception (2017)
Art and Illusionists (2016)
Galileo's Visions: piercing the spheres of the heavens by eye and mind (2014)
Visual Perception: An Introduction. 3rd edition (2013)
Giuseppe Moruzzi, Ritratti di uno scienziato, Portraits of a scientist (2010)
Circles: Science, sense and symbol (2007)
Insegne Ambigue: Percosi obliqui tra storia, scienza e arte da Galileo a Magritte (2007)
The Moving Tablet of the Eye: the origins of modern eye movement research (2005)
Perception and Illusion: Historical Perspectives (2005)
Müller's Elements of Physiology (2003)
Destined for Distinguished Oblivion: The Scientific Vision of William Charles Wells (1757-1817) (2002)
Thomas Young's Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (2002)
Visual Perception: An Introduction, 2nd. ed. (2001)
Purkinje's Vision. The Dawning of Neuroscience. (2001)
The Emergence of Neuroscience in the Nineteenth Century (2000)
Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics (2000)
A Natural History of Vision (1998)
Psychologists in Word and Image (1995)
Visual Allusions: Pictures of Perception (1990)
Brewster and Wheatstone on Vision (1983)
The Art and Science of Visual Illusions (1982)