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E-grāmata: History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions

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Why do we see the world the way we do? An unusual history of sight across 500 million years.

In 2015 #thedress captured the world’s imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and black? It inspired the author to ask: if people in the same time and place can see the same thing differently, how did people in distant times and places see the world?

Jam-packed with fascinating stories, facts and insights and impeccably researched, A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions investigates the story of seeing from the evolution of eyes 500 million years ago to the present day. Time after time, it reveals, inventions that changed how people saw the world ended up changing it altogether.

Twenty-first-century life is more visual than ever, and seeing overwhelmingly dominates our senses. Can our eyes keep up with technology? Have we gone as far as the eye can see?

'A remarkable achievement' - Stephen Fry

Recenzijas

'I was entranced from the first paragraph. A magnificently readable survey of so much that in the human experience is profound and profoundly important to us ... Every page elicits at least one ah ooh or wow!, usually all three at once. Authoritative without being dry, academic or difficult, fluent and fun without being facetious or over simple As Far As The Eye Can See is a remarkable achievement.' -- Stephen Fry

'In his book, Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari gave us a portrait of our broad family history. As Far as the Eye Can See paints a picture that is more intimate, closer both physically and in time.' -- **Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator**

'A wonderful, wide-ranging, totally gripping account of the evolution of seeing, from the firelight shadows of 1 million BC to the age of Netflix. Well worth casting your eye over, if only to find out how - and why - you are able to do that ...' -- Giles Coren, presenter, columnist

'From the first fires to the Facebook age, As Far as the Eye Can See takes us on an elegant, sweeping and wholly fascinating tour through human history.' -- Peter Moore, best-selling author of The Weather Experiment and Endeavour

Foreword 7(2)
Tristan Gooley
Preface 9(2)
Prologue: 2015 11(4)
Becoming: How We See
15(30)
1 You SeeTomayto, I SeeTomarto: The Subjective Art of Seeing
17(14)
2 Perfect and Complex: Eyes in Evolution
31(14)
Transforming: The Visual Technologies that Begat History
45(92)
3 Stolen from the Gods: Firelight
47(17)
4 From the Eye to the Pencil: Art
64(18)
5 From Eye to I: Mirrors
82(23)
6 Geometry of the Soul: Writing
105(32)
Believing: When We Didn't See
137(46)
7 Amongst Barbarians: The Age of the Invisible
139(14)
8 Through a Glass, Clearly: Spectacles
153(30)
Observing: The Optical Tools that Made the Modern World
183(84)
9 Gunpowder for the Mind: The Printing Press
185(27)
10 The Eye, Extended: The Telescope
212(31)
11 In Love with Night: Industrialised Light
243(24)
Showing: Mass Media and the Conquest of Seeing
267(87)
12 Nature's Pencil: Photography
269(26)
13 Surpassing Imagination: Moving Images
295(27)
14 Seeing, Weaponised: Smartphones
322(20)
15 An All-Seeing World
342(12)
Epilogue: 2019 354(2)
Postscript: 2021 356(7)
Notes 363(35)
Bibliography 398(26)
Index 424
SUSAN DENHAM WADE spent twenty years researching, writing and presenting on the future of television, digital media and communications technology as a strategist and media executive at the BBC and in Hollywood. She has an MA in Creative Writing (Non Fiction) from City University, where she was awarded the City Non Fiction Award, as well as degrees in Economics and Law and a Harvard MBA. She lives in West Sussex.