Insect Vision
Author: Georgiĭ Aleksandrovich Mazokhin-Porshni︠a︡kov
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 328
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: G. Adrian Horridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Adrian Horridge
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1789240891
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the only account of what honeybees actually see. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colours, but there is no sign that they reconstruct patterns or put together features to form objects. Bees detect motion but have no perception of what it is that moves, and certainly they do not recognize "things" by their shapes. Yet they clearly see well enough to fly and find food with a minute brain. Bee vision is therefore relevant to the construction of simple artificial visual systems, for example for mobile robots. The surprising conclusion is that bee vision is adapted to the recognition of places, not things. In this volume, Adrian Horridge also sets out the curious and contentious history of how bee vision came to be understood, with an account of a century of neglect of old experimental results, errors of interpretation, sharp disagreements, and failures of the scientific method. The design of the experiments and the methods of making inferences from observations are also critically examined, with the conclusion that scientists are often hesitant, imperfect and misleading, ignore the work of others, and fail to consider alternative explanations. The erratic path to understanding makes interesting reading for anyone with an interest in the workings of science but particularly those researching insect vision and invertebrate sensory systems.
Author: Georgiĭ Aleksandrovich Mazokhin-Porshni︠a︡kov
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: G. A. Mazohkin-Porshnyakov
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1995-12-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780306302688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Doekele G. Stavenga
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 3642740820
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The papers published in this Volume are the fruits of a symposium held in Regensburg in April 1987. The meeting was held to com memorate two most significant events in the development of com pound eye research. In chronological order these are firstly, Sigmund Exner's seminal monograph on the physiology of compound eyes of crustaceans and insects, which was first published in Vienna in 1891, and is now shortly to appear for the first time in the English translation [Exner, S. (1989) The Physiology of the Compound Eyes of Insects and Crustaceans. Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Tokyo]. Secondly, the meeting was also held in honour of Professor Hansjochem Autrum's 80th birthday. Professor Autrum, who is justly acknowledged as one of the pioneers of modern compound eye research, attended the meeting as the guest of honour. In keeping with these historical occasions, it has been our intention in this volume to present a comprehensive collection of short reviews covering the major aspects of compound eye research. Whilst the most up-to-date developments have been included in every field from optics, through photochemistry, phototransduction, integrative processes and behavior, an attempt has also been made to provide a historical perspective.
Author: Elke Buschbeck
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-03-28
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 303123216X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the diversity of distributed eyes and other unusual visual systems in nature. It compares the unique themes of optics, neural processing, and behavioral control that emerge from these visual systems with more-canonical eyes. This volume attempts to answer a number of questions about distributed visual systems. What are distributed visual systems good for, how do they function, and why have they arisen independently in so many phyla? Why are eye designs and visual system arrangements much more diverse in invertebrates? Each chapter includes an overview of the visual systems that exist in their group of animals, relates vision to ecology, and takes a comparative approach.
Author: Sarah Glenn Marsh
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 2019-02-01
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 0807592617
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The amazing story of a curious girl who became a pioneer in the field of entomology and scientific illustration. Maria Sibylla Merian was fascinated with insects. But when Maria was a girl in the mid-1600s, superstitions about bugs prevented most people from taking a close look. People thought bugs were evil—and anyone interested in such creatures was surely evil too. That didn't stop Maria. Filled with curiosity, she began to study and paint them. She even witnessed silkworms form cocoons and transform into moths—discovering metamorphosis! Painting and drawing as she studied, Maria pushed the boundaries of what girls were expected to do, eventually gaining recognition as one of the first entomologists and scientific illustrators. This gorgeously illustrated biography celebrates a fascinating female pioneer who broke boundaries in both the arts and sciences.
Author: Georgij Aleksandrovič Mazochin-Poršnjakov
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 306
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