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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... scientists . - Newton was criticised in his time for mysterious action - at - a - distance , and lack of initiating principles . Shakespeare initiates Hamlet with a ghost . This is the ghost of Hamlet's father . The reality of the ghost ...
... scientist cannot resist playing with them, teasing them into new tricks, while looking for what they may do and what they might become. Like bringing up children, science depends on hoped- for futures, with shared intentions; yet, when ...
... scientist Heinrich Hertz left off , though the essentials of Hertz's apparatus lived on for years in wirelesses , transmitting and receiving Morse code . Marconi started experimenting in his parents ' home near Bologna . When he needed ...
... scientist, Marconi was not afraid to challenge and, indeed, flout the science of his day. One of his greatest, most idiosyncratic achievements, that no committee would have backed, was transmitting across the Atlantic, in 1901. This ...
... scientist, Charles Hill, in 1982. Working on UV coatings for the printing industry, in which ultra-violet light is used to set polymers, he realized that '3-D printing' might be made possible by laying down successive coatings of a ...
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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 | |