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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... EYES 24 SWITCHING BRAINS ON BY EXPLORING 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 ...
... eyes and speak to it . Horatio . Tush , tush ! ' twill not appear . But the ghost does appear , though he does not yet speak : Marcellus . Thou art a scholar ; speak to it , Horatio . ..... It is offended . Bemado . See ! it stalks away ...
... eyes. The sun blinded him. Before the instrument of discovery lost him his eyes, Galileo saw ever-changing disfiguring dark spots upon the Sun King's face. So the heavens were more ugly and more beautiful, less constant but more ...
... eyes . It is a much wondered - at marvel that Maxwell's equations for the aether inspired , and were essential for Einstein's theory - yet it was Einstein's theory that banished the aether ! Newton had thought of light as particles ...
... eye's narrow (one octave) frequency response, we can't see X-rays, ultra-violet, infrared or radio waves, as they do not resonate with the micro-structure of our retinas. It is remarkable that a simple length of copper wire responds to ...
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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 | |