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Season 1967
Our days are spent looking at a flat world and using our brain to make it come alive. Professor Gregory examines this by investigating a minute water insect and using it as a key to explain the miracle of sight.
Our days are spent looking at a flat world and using our brain to make it come alive. Professor Gregory examines this by investigating a minute water insect and using it as a key to explain the miracle of sight.
Our eyes and our brain have to learn to live with each other, for the eye shows the brain a strange 'upside-down' world which the brain has to sort out and make sense of.
Our eyes and our brain have to learn to live with each other, for the eye shows the brain a strange 'upside-down' world which the brain has to sort out and make sense of.
It is said that much of life is illusion; but this is an understatement. The pleasure of a conjuring trick and the strange disturbance of an optical illusion make this a provoking programme.
It is said that much of life is illusion; but this is an understatement. The pleasure of a conjuring trick and the strange disturbance of an optical illusion make this a provoking programme.
A three-dimensional television picture; a splash of colour on your black and white screen; solid figures performing absurd contortions. How do these happen? Have sunglasses with you when you view to find one of the answers.
A three-dimensional television picture; a splash of colour on your black and white screen; solid figures performing absurd contortions. How do these happen? Have sunglasses with you when you view to find one of the answers.
Optical illusions can be strange and dangerous when seen by Earth's astronauts in the deep vacuum of space. Lecture 5 tells of the latest experiments devised to minimise the dangers in this blank black world.
Optical illusions can be strange and dangerous when seen by Earth's astronauts in the deep vacuum of space. Lecture 5 tells of the latest experiments devised to minimise the dangers in this blank black world.
Lecture Six probes into man's greatest dream-a machine that can see and think -the Robot of Science Fiction. Some of the most advanced work on this fascinating subject will be revealed.
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Lecture Six probes into man's greatest dream-a machine that can see and think -the Robot of Science Fiction. Some of the most advanced work on this fascinating subject will be revealed. Sunglasses will be wanted again when the three-dimensional pendulum is explained.
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