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
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	16 pages of color; 90 black-and-white il
Model	039306719X
ReleaseDate	2008-10-17
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780393067194

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