Ability to interpret the surrounding environment using light in the visible spectrum

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A man behind a woman who is combing her hair; representing the sense of sight. Engraving.

Surface of retina showing glial cells - 3D

Looking up from underneath a microscope

Retinal ganglion cell

Cell bodies and axons of the mesencephalic

Galileo's visions : piercing the spheres of the heavens by eye and mind / Marco Piccolino and Nicholas J. Wade.

Green glass eye bath.

A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.

Museums and the interpretation of visual culture / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill.

Sight and embodiment in the Middle Ages / Suzannah Biernoff.

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Galileo's visions : piercing the spheres of the heavens by eye and mind / Marco Piccolino and Nicholas J. Wade.

Green glass eye bath.

A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.

Museums and the interpretation of visual culture / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill.

Sight and embodiment in the Middle Ages / Suzannah Biernoff.