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

by Simon Ings

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039306719X
• ISBN13: 9780393067194
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.3"