‎Tolansky (Samuel)‎
‎Optical Illusions‎

‎Pergamon Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1964 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, 'editor's red printed binding, no dust-jacket In-8 1 vol. - 166 pages‎

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‎1 plate in frontispiece, 80 black and white text-figures 1st edition, 1964 "Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, ix, Text, Conclusion, Bibliography, 157 pages - Illusion in nature - The effect of weak wings - Convergence-divergence - Some further illusions - Irradiation illusions - Crossed-bar illusions - The setting sun and moon illusions - The moon in art - Illusions produced by hatched lines - Illusions involving oscillation of attention - Illusions due to instrumentation - Samuel Tolansky, 17 November 1907 4 March 1973). He was nominated for a Nobel Prize, has a crater on the moon named after him near the Apollo 14 landing site and he was a principal investigator to the NASA lunar project known as the Apollo program. - He began work at the University of Manchester, 193447, as an Assistant Lecturer, later Senior Lecturer and Reader, under Prof William Lawrence Bragg. At Manchester he continued work on nuclear spins and did war work involving the optical spectroscopy of uranium-235 measuring its spin. He also developed multiple-beam interferometry, continued teaching and wrote ""Introduction to Atomic Physics"" in 1942. - Amongst work he carried out he was particularly interested in the optics of diamond and, partly in this respect, investigated optical characteristics of moon dust from the Apollo 11 first moon landing. In 1969 he appeared on the BBC astronomy programme The Sky at Night explaining the dimensions of space, and introduced the concept of 2-dimensional 'Flatlanders'. (source : Wikipedia)" ex-library copy, near fine copy, the editor's binding is near fine, sticker on the bottom of the spine, without dust-jacket, inside is near fine, two small bookseller stamps on the endpaper and back end paper, light marks on the title-page, it remains a near fine copy‎