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A fascination with how vision works is natural. Light provides humans and other animals with very detailed information about their surroundings through the visual sense. Humans are especially visually oriented. There is great practical importance in understanding the eye and its mechanism, so that dysfunctions of this central sensory organ can be avoided or treated more effectively.
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Dratz, E.A. (1977). Vision. In: Smith, K.C. (eds) The Science of Photobiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1713-5_10
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