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

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

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 scienceâ€•the physics of light and the biology of animals and humans alikeâ€•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 illustrations

Country	USA
Author	Simon Ings
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780393067194
Edition	1
ISBN	039306719X
Label	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
MPN	16 pages of color; 90 black-and-white il
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	336
PartNumber	16 pages of color; 90 black-and-white il
PublicationDate	2008-10-17
Publisher	W. W. Norton & Company
Studio	W. W. Norton & Company
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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