Abstract
IN this book will be found a popular and readable account of numerous problems relating to lighting and vision. A large number of important psychological and physiological experiments carried out under the author‘s direction are reported in simple terms, with very clear diagrams illustrating the meaning of the results in a practical form. After reviewing the difficulties presented to the human eye by the needs of reading and innumerable everyday activities, the author proceeds to consider eye-defects, and the practical problems and history of artificial lighting. Then he studies the influence of various factors in making objects visible: intensity of illumination, relative size, brightness contrast, eye movements and the time required for seeing, visual acuity and its measurement by test charts. Later he considers the physiological effects of seeing, practical problems of lighting, various common illuminants, colour discrimination, glare and other important matters, including the relation of safety and efficiency to the ease of seeing. At the end of the book he includes answers to one hundred common questions about vision, light and colour.
Light, Vision and Seeing
A Simplified Presentation of their Relationships and their Importance in Human Efficiency and Welfare. By Dr. Matthew Luckiesh. Fourth printing. Pp. xiv + 323 + 16 plates. (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc. ; London : Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1946.) 25s. net.
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PICKFORD, R. Light, Vision and Seeing. Nature 161, 40 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161040c0
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