Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

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1967
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Ancient Eyes and Simple Brains
Episode overview
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.
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Learning to See Things
Episode overview
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.
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Playing with Illusions
Episode overview
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.
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How Illusions Play Games with Us
Episode overview
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.
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Human Eyes in Space
Episode overview
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.
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The Future: Machines that See?
Episode overview
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. .. show full overview

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