David R Weimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5685161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Weimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Weimer |
| SIGNATURE | WEIMER D R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Commerce of Vision
Reviewed by: The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America by Peter John Brownlee David Weimer Peter John Brownlee. The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. xi + 249 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-8122-5042-8). In The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America, Peter John Brownlee …
To Touch a Sighted World
In Boston at what is now the Perkins School for the Blind, Samuel Gridley Howe produced two atlases during the 1830s with raised lines and alphabetic characters for blind students that were also legible for sighted readers. Believing that blind students needed to learn both the form and content of textbooks for the sighted, Howe chose materials and methods of production to mitigate difficulties that these design principles presented for blind use…
The Third Dimension
Anxiety in the Golden Day of Lewis Mumford
FROM among the five books Lewis Mumford had published by 1933, The Golden Day was his favorite.' The agreeable circumstances surrounding its composition had surely colored his choice. Following the appearance of Sticks and Stones in the autumn of 1924, Mumford had been invited by an English political scientist, the late Alfred Zimmern, to lecture at the newly founded Geneva School of International Studies in Switzerland. Twenty-nine years old at …
American Architecture and Other Writings
Welcome Instruments for Thinking Men
History of the Progressive Party, 1912-1916
A member of the radical nucleus of the Party, Pinchot wrote this History but never saw it published. It has been put together here from the Pinchot Papers at the Library of Congress
Bibliography of American Culture, 1493-1875
American Architecture and Other Writings
History of the Progressive Party, 1912-1916
A member of the radical nucleus of the Party, Pinchot wrote this History but never saw it published. It has been put together here from the Pinchot Papers at the Library of Congress
Bibliography of American Culture, 1493-1875
History of the Progressive Party, 1912-1916
A member of the radical nucleus of the Party, Pinchot wrote this History but never saw it published. It has been put together here from the Pinchot Papers at the Library of Congress
Welcome Instruments for Thinking Men
American Architecture and Other Writings
Anxiety in the Golden Day of Lewis Mumford
FROM among the five books Lewis Mumford had published by 1933, The Golden Day was his favorite.' The agreeable circumstances surrounding its composition had surely colored his choice. Following the appearance of Sticks and Stones in the autumn of 1924, Mumford had been invited by an English political scientist, the late Alfred Zimmern, to lecture at the newly founded Geneva School of International Studies in Switzerland. Twenty-nine years old at …
The Third Dimension
To Touch a Sighted World
In Boston at what is now the Perkins School for the Blind, Samuel Gridley Howe produced two atlases during the 1830s with raised lines and alphabetic characters for blind students that were also legible for sighted readers. Believing that blind students needed to learn both the form and content of textbooks for the sighted, Howe chose materials and methods of production to mitigate difficulties that these design principles presented for blind use…
The Commerce of Vision
Reviewed by: The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America by Peter John Brownlee David Weimer Peter John Brownlee. The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. xi + 249 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-8122-5042-8). In The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America, Peter John Brownlee …
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