INVENTORY #104677
the Eye. Volume 2: The Visual Process
DAVSON, Hugh (ed.)
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Publication Info
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1962
- Place Published: New York
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Very Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: Yes
- Jacket Condition: Fair
- Details:
xviii, 796 p. 24 cm. Over 300 mainly b&w figures and tables. Blue cloth hardcover. Part of jacket has stuck to rear board. Jacket has some tears and chips to edges. Ink stamp on front free endpaper. Topics include: rods and cones; dark adaptation and night vision; absolute thresholds and quantum effects; liminal brightness increments; visual acuity; flicker and after-images; colour vision; the two-colour threshold technique of Stiles; visual photopigment; photoreceptors; retina and optic nerve; the station in the lateral geniculate nucleus; visual cortex. Author and subject index.