Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. An Ocular Age: Vision in a World of Surfaces 1
4. Part I. The Problem of Vision
5. Chapter One. Ophthalmology, Popular Physiology, and the Market Revolution in Vision 17
6. Chapter Two. Vision, Eyewear, and the Art of Refraction 39
7. Part II. The Chaos of Print
8. Chapter Three. Broadsides, Display Types, and the Physiology of the Moving Eye 76
9. Chapter Four. Signboards, Vision, and Commerce in the Antebellum City 111
10. Part III. Painting, Print, Perception
11. Chapter Five. The Optics of Newspaper Vision 137
12. Chapter Six. Paper Money, Spectral Illusions, and the Limits of Vision 177
13. Notes 215
14. Index 239
15. Acknowledgments 247