Download or read book A short account of the eye and nature of vision The second edition written by James AYSCOUGH and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short Account of the Eye and Nature of Vision written by James Ayscough and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eyes to See written by Michael Land and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vision is the sense by which we and other animals obtain most of our information about the world around us. Darwin appreciated that at first sight it seems absurd that the human eye could have evolved by natural selection. But we now know far more about vision, the many times it has independently evolved in nature, and the astonishing variety of ways to see. The human eye, with a lens forming an image on a sensitive retina, represents just one. Scallops, shrimps, and lobsters all use mirrors in different ways. Jumping spiders scan with their front-facing eyes to check whether the object in front is an insect to eat, another spider to mate with, or a predator to avoid. Mantis shrimps can even measure the polarization of light. Animal eyes are amazing structures, often involving precision optics and impressive information processing, mainly using wet protein - not the substance an engineer would choose for such tasks. In Eyes to See, Michael Land, one of the leading world experts on vision, explores the varied ways in which sight has evolved and is used in the natural world, and describes some of the ingenious experiments researchers have used to uncover its secrets. He also discusses human vision, including his experiments on how our eye movements help us to do everyday tasks, as well as skilled ones such as sight-reading music or driving. He ends by considering the fascinating problem of how the constantly shifting images from our eyes are converted in the brain into the steady and integrated conscious view of the world we experience.
Download or read book A Short Account of the Eye and Nature of Vision written by James Ayscough and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library. Library Company and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Library Company Of Philadelphia To Which Is Prefixed A Short Account Of The Institution With The Charter Laws And Regulations written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book IBBO International Biography and Bibliography of Ophthalmologists and Visual Scientist A Z written by and published by Wayenborgh Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Francis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy written by Brian Gee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London. Working from original documents, Brian Gee has uncovered the life and times of an optical instrument maker, who - at first glance - was not among the most prominent in his field. In fact, because Francis Watkins came from a landed background, the diversification of his assets enabled him to weather particular business storms - discussed in this book - where colleagues without such an economic cushion, were pushed into bankruptcy or forced to emigrate. He played an important role in one of the most significant legal cases to touch this profession, namely the patenting of the achromatic lens in telescopes. The book explains Watkins's origins, and how and why he was drawn into partnership with the famous Dollond firm, who at that point were Huguenot incomers. The patent for the achromatic telescope has never been satisfactorily explained in the literature, and the author has gone back to the original legal documents, never before consulted. He teases out the problems, lays out the evidence, and comes to some interesting new conclusions, showing the Dollonds as hard-headed and ruthless businessmen, ultimately extremely successful. The latter part of the book accounts for the successors of Francis Watkins, and their decline after over a century of successful business in central London.
Download or read book An essay on vision briefly explaining the fabric of the eye and the nature of vision The second edition written by George ADAMS (Mathematical Instrument Maker, the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge written by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essay on Vision Briefly Explaining the Fabric of the Eye and the Nature of Vision written by George Adams and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Action in Perception written by Alva Noë and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-01-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us," writes Alva Noë. "It is something we do." In Action in Perception, Noë argues that perception and perceptual consciousness depend on capacities for action and thought—that perception is a kind of thoughtful activity. Touch, not vision, should be our model for perception. Perception is not a process in the brain, but a kind of skillful activity of the body as a whole. We enact our perceptual experience. To perceive, according to this enactive approach to perception, is not merely to have sensations; it is to have sensations that we understand. In Action in Perception, Noë investigates the forms this understanding can take. He begins by arguing, on both phenomenological and empirical grounds, that the content of perception is not like the content of a picture; the world is not given to consciousness all at once but is gained gradually by active inquiry and exploration. Noë then argues that perceptual experience acquires content thanks to our possession and exercise of practical bodily knowledge, and examines, among other topics, the problems posed by spatial content and the experience of color. He considers the perspectival aspect of the representational content of experience and assesses the place of thought and understanding in experience. Finally, he explores the implications of the enactive approach for our understanding of the neuroscience of perception.
Download or read book An Essay on Vision written by George Adams and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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