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The book starts out talking about Monet, the French impressionist painter, and the reason why his later paintings lacked light blue, and appeared to be toned towards red-yellow. This was due to a physical ailment of cataracts. The opaqueness of a cataract affected lens causes it to absorb certain wavelengths of light. | |||
The way in which you see the world is affected by biological processes. | |||
== The Physical Nature of Light == | == The Physical Nature of Light == | ||
Revision as of 17:31, 24 January 2012
Light and Life
The book starts out talking about Monet, the French impressionist painter, and the reason why his later paintings lacked light blue, and appeared to be toned towards red-yellow. This was due to a physical ailment of cataracts. The opaqueness of a cataract affected lens causes it to absorb certain wavelengths of light.
The way in which you see the world is affected by biological processes.