A Natural History of Seeing: The Art and Science of Vision
ISBN-13:
9780393067194
ISBN-10:
039306719X
Edition:
1
Author:
Simon Ings
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
336 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780393067194
ISBN-10:
039306719X
Edition:
1
Author:
Simon Ings
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
336 pages
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A Natural History of Seeing: The Art and Science of Vision (ISBN-13: 9780393067194 and ISBN-10: 039306719X), written by authors
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The science, history, philosophy, and mythology of how and why we see the way we do.
We spend about one-tenth of our waking hours completely blind. Only one percent of what we see is in focus at any one time. There is no direct fossil evidence for the evolution of the eye. In graceful, accessible prose, novelist and science writer Simon Ings sets out to solve these and other mysteries of seeing.A Natural History of Seeing delves into both the evolution of sight and the evolution of our understanding of sight. It gives us the natural science―the physics of light and the biology of animals and humans alike―while also addressing Leonardo's theories of perception in painting and Homer's confused and strangely limited sense of color. Panoramic in every sense, it reaches back to the first seers (and to ancient beliefs that vision is the product of mysterious optic rays) and forward to the promise of modern experiments in making robots that see. 16 pages of color; 90 black-and-white illustrationsWe would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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