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MANY readers will be glad to possess this collection of essays, in which Mr. Shelford Bidwell describes some of the experiments which the scientific world owes to his ingenuity. The five chapters in the volume are based upon notes of lectures delivered to various audiences; and their subjects are: light and the eye, colour and its perception, some optical defects of the eye, some optical delusions, and curiosities of vision. Each subject is presented with freshness of style, and elucidated by many simple and convincing experiments. To the popular lecturer on science, who desires to know how to produce curious and instructive optical effects, the volume will be very acceptable, and every physical experimentalist may confidently turn to it for inspiration. But though the curiosities of colour phenomena, and of sight generally, are chiefly described in the book, many questions of deep interest to students of both physical and physiological optics are discussed, so that the volume appeals to scientific as well as popular readers.
Curiosities of Light and Sight.
By Shelford Bidwell Pp. xii + 226. (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., Ltd., 1899.)
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Curiosities of Light and Sight. Nature 60, 389 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060389a0
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