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Sight is regarded as vital to our day-to-day survival. Looking at mythology, history and science, from Actaeon's glimpse of the bathing Diana in the Roman myth to 18th century France, through to advances in microscopy and photography, this book surveys the ways in which, through the sense of sight, perceiver and perceived are inextricably joined.

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F. Gonzalez-Crussi is currently Professor Emeritus of Pathology at Northwestern University Medical School. He is the author of Notes of an Anatomist, The Five Senses (Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominee), Suspended Animation (a New York Times Notable Book), The Day of the Dead, There Is a World Elsewhere and On Being Born and Other Difficulties.

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