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Optical wonderlands: vision science from photons to philosophy
Hoverflies’ large compound eyes give them a very large field of view. Credit: USGS-BIML
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Nature 563, 182-183 (2018)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07292-2
In Retrospect: The Book of Optics
Our useful inability to see reality
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