Blindspots: The Many Ways We Cannot See

by Bruno Breitmeyer

Book Overview

Sight can be so effortless, so useful, and so entertaining--the average human can distinguish several million colors; a falcon can see a fencepost from three thousand yards--that we never stop to think about how complex a process it is and how easily it can fail us. We never have as clear and complete a picture of the world around us as we think we do. The gaps between what our eyes take in and what is in our mind's eye provide the unifying theme...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195394267
• ISBN13: 9780195394269
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"