Michael Land: 4 books

Vision is the sense by which we and other animals obtain most of our information about the world around us. Darwin appreciated that at first sight it seems absurd that the human eye could have evolved by natural selection. But we now know far more about vision, the many times it has independently...

The eye is one of the most remarkable achievements of evolution, and has evolved up to 40 times in different parts of the animal kingdom. In humans, vision is the most important sense, and much of the brain is given over to the processing of visual information. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael...

Philosophical-Occult periodical featuring the following essays 1 Land: Neurosys 2 Blake: Elves of Disintegration 3 O'Sullivan: Mythopoesis, Scenes and Performance Fictions: 4 Schlep: Spider-Spit: Notes of the formation of an Alchemical-Textual Machine. 5 Johns: Creating...

Animal Eyes provides a comparative account of all known types of eye in the animal kingdom, outlining their structure and function with an emphasis on the nature of the optical systems and the physical principles involved in image formation. A universal theme throughout the book is the evolution and...