A Natural History of Seeing: The Art and Science of Vision

Name: A Natural History of Seeing: The Art and Science of Vision
Brand: Blue Guides Limited of London
SKU: 9780393067194-V
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By Simon Ings

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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.

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Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 336
Release Date:: 2008-10-12
Publication Date:: 2008-10-31
Publisher:: Blue Guides Limited of London
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 039306719X
ISBN13:: 9780393067194
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 522 g
Height:: 145 cm
Width:: 211 cm
Thickness:: 30 cm

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