An Optics of Visual Experience

Physical optics has increasingly removed itself from immediate visual experience, focusing instead on abstract explanatory theories and the measurements of sophisticated instruments. It is fair to say that sensory experience has become the stepchild of our modern scientific worldview.
However, failure to actively engage the phenomena leaves us with an impoverished relationship with the world around us. Acutely aware of the importance of sensory experience for deepening and enlivening our scientific understanding of nature, Georg Maier devoted much of his career as a physicist to studying the visual world. In this groundbreaking book, he guides us toward an experiential understanding of visual phenomena.

About the author

Georg Maier is a physicist at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. He directs research into modes of observation and conceptualization of nature. Formerly, he was involved in neutron diffraction research at the Kernforschungsanlage Jülich (KFA) in Germany. Georg Maier is a coauthor of Being on Earth (1996) and The Marriage of Sense and Thought (1997).

Summary

An experienced physicist guides us towards an understanding of visual phenomena based on our direct experience.

Product details

• Authors: Georg Maier, Maier Georg
• Publisher: BookSource
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780932776419
• ISBN: 978-0-932776-41-9
• Dimensions: 206 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Series: Adonis Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Electricity, magnetism, optics; SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, Optical physics