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Animal Eyes

2012-03-01 Science
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Release : 2012-03-01
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Animal Eyes by : Michael F. Land

Download or read book Animal Eyes written by Michael F. Land. This book was released on 2012-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Eyes provides a comparative account of all known types of eye in the animal kingdom, outlining their structure and function with an emphasis on the nature of the optical systems and the physical principles involved in image formation. A universal theme throughout the book is the evolution and taxonomic distribution of each type of eye, and the roles of different eye types in the behaviour and ecology of the animals that possess them. In comparing the specific capabilities of eyes, it considers the factors that lead to good resolution of detail and the ability to function under a wide range of light conditions. This new edition is fully updated throughout, incorporating more than a decade of new discoveries and research.

In the Eye of the Animal

2018-06-15 Religion
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Release : 2018-06-15
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis In the Eye of the Animal by : Patricia Cox Miller

Download or read book In the Eye of the Animal written by Patricia Cox Miller. This book was released on 2018-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and art—from Augustine's renowned "wonder at the agility of the mosquito on the wing," to vivid exegeses of the six days of creation detailed in Genesis—and when they appear, the distinctions between human and animal are often dissolved. How, asks Patricia Cox Miller, does one account for the stunning zoological imagination found in a wide variety of genres of ancient Christian texts? In the Eye of the Animal complicates the role of animals in early Christian thought by showing how textual and artistic images and interpretive procedures actually celebrated a continuum of human and animal life. Synthesizing early Christian studies, contemporary philosophy, animal studies, ethology, and modern poetry, Miller identifies two contradictory strands in early Christian thinking about animals. The dominant thread viewed the body and soul of the human being as dominical, or the crowning achievement of creation; animals, with their defective souls, related to humans only as reminders of the brutish physical form. However, the second strand relied upon the idea of a continuum of animal life, which enabled comparisons between animals and humans. This second tendency, explains Miller, arises particularly in early Christian literature in which ascetic identity, the body, and ethics intersect. She explores the tension between these modes by tracing the image of the animal in early Christian literature, from the ethical animal behavior on display in Basil of Caesarea's Hexaemeron and the anonymous Physiologus, to the role of animals in articulating erotic desire, and from the idyllic intimacy of monks and animals in literature of desert ascetism to early Christian art that envisions paradise through human-animal symbiosis.

What If You Had Animal Eyes?

2017-08-29 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2017-08-29
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Synopsis What If You Had Animal Eyes? by : Sandra Markle

Download or read book What If You Had Animal Eyes? written by Sandra Markle. This book was released on 2017-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you could have any animal's eyes, whose would you choose? What if you woke up one morning and your eyes weren't yours? What If You Had Animal Eyes? -- the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series -- explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw a pair of animal eyes instead of your own! From the chameleon's eyes that can point in different directions, to the colossal squid's eyes that shine in the dark, discover what it would be like if you had these special eyes -- and find out why your eyes are just the right ones for you!

Animal Eye

2012-02-26 Poetry
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Release : 2012-02-26
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 385/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Animal Eye by : Paisley Rekdal

Download or read book Animal Eye written by Paisley Rekdal. This book was released on 2012-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted one of the five best poetry collections for 2012 by Publishers Weekly, Animal Eye employs pastoral motifs to engage a discourse on life and love, as Coal Hill Review states "It is as if a scientist is at work in the basement of the museum of natural history, building a diorama of an entire ecosystem via words. She seem snot only interested in using the natural world as a metaphoric lens in her poems but is set on building them item by item into natural worlds themselves."

Animal Eyes

2011-02-01 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2011-02-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Synopsis Animal Eyes by : Beth Fielding

Download or read book Animal Eyes written by Beth Fielding. This book was released on 2011-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the world of animal eyes, explaning how eyes work, why different animals have different types of eyes, and what each animal specifically uses them for.

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