Even Odder PerceptionsRoutledge, 27. 3. 2017 - Počet stran: 282 Why did Newton struggle for thirty years to make gold by alchemy – and then become Master of the Mint? Why do we blush? Why do we have illusions? In this collection of essays, originally published in 1994, Richard Gregory once again delights and tantalizes with tales of his childhood, his family and friends, the famous and the infamous, and weaves them into a rich pattern to illuminate scientific principles and puzzles. If you can put the book down, each essay is complete on its own, but they are united by the magic of human perception. From seeing and hearing to feeling and believing, from the shape of traffic signs to knowledge of quantum mechanics, all our interactions with the outside world are mediated by perception. Our knowledge is further distilled by the machines which help our own biological mechanisms, like microscopes and telescopes, electric light, and even more powerfully by computer technology. But if the natural structures of perception can affect our interpretation of the world, how much more dramatically might science education and tools of information technology enhance – though sometimes mislead – our perception of reality? Even Odder Perceptions may not have all the answers, but it certainly poses more questions. |
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... HANDS-ON 25 MICHAEL FARADAY'S PERCEPTION 26 ADELBERT AMES: INTERACTIONS WITH HERMANN HELMHOLTZ, ALBERT EINSTEIN AND THE UNIVERSE 27 PUTTING ILLUSIONS IN THEIR PLACE Index Figures 4.1 An original drawing of James Clerk - Maxwell's.
... Faraday was asked 'What use is electricity?' he replied 'What use is a baby?' Like babies, how discoveries and inventions grow is unpredictable. Most are forgotten. A few change the world. Babies are wonderful toys for adults! Children ...
... Faraday's Dark Space ' . It is fascinating that though the glow is affected by a magnet the striations are not . Faraday wrote ( in a letter to J. Plucker on 27 January 1857 ) : Then again the question of transmission of the discharge ...
Richard L. Gregory. Faraday demonstrated the existence of his conceived lines of force .... Events were to show that this was probably Faraday's greatest contribution to physics and certainly his most important theoretical one . His ...
... Faraday's electric induction to communicate to islands and across rivers. This attempt, however, was doomed to failure because the induction effect (the principle of transformers) falls off very rapidly with distance. Early ...
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2 | |
IS SCIENCE GOOD FOR THE SOUL? | |
CRACKS OF DOOM AND KUHN | |
AT FIRST SIGHT | |
SENSES OF HUMOUR | |
ZAP | |
VIRTUALLY REAL | |
QUESTIONS OF QUANTA AND QUALIA | |
WHAT ARE PERCEPTIONS MADE | |
A NUMBER OF IDEAS | |
MIND IN A BLACK | |
WHAT IS THE CATCH IN NEURAL NETS? | |
AT FIRST BLUSH | |
SOUND SAGA | |
CONNING CORTEX | |