Curiosities of Light and Sight
"[...]profusion of marvels as the eye, there is perhaps none which is marked with imperfections so striking. Many of its defects are the more striking because they are so obvious, being such as would never be tolerated in optical instruments of human manufacture. In any fairly good camera or...
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"[...]profusion of marvels as the eye, there is perhaps none which is marked with imperfections so striking. Many of its defects are the more striking because they are so obvious, being such as would never be tolerated in optical instruments of human manufacture. In any fairly good camera or telescope or microscope we should expect to find that the lenses were symmetrically figured, free from striæ and properly centred; also that they were achromatic and efficiently corrected for spherical aberration. In the eye not one of these elementary requirements is fulfilled.[...]".
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781505963892 (1505963893)
ASIN: 1505963893
Publish date: 2015-02-27
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 78
Edition language: English
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