These are the Colours Your Eyes Can’t See It is easy to assume the spectrum of colours we see contains all the colours that exist in the world. In one way, this is true – that is, it contains all the colours that exist in the human world. But in reality, there are a huge number of other colours that are simply not perceptible to the human eye-the colours our eyes can’t see. The colours we perceive are the result of…
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Debunking the most common eye myths
Debunking the most common eye myths Ideas about how our eyes work have undergone many changes throughout history. In ancient Greece, for example, Plato’s “emission theory” suggested that we emit beams of light from our eyes in order to illuminate and see objects. Another Greek, Empedocles, believed that Aphrodite made the human eye out of the four elements — fire, air, earth, and water. She then made sight possible by lighting the fire in the eye and allowing it to shine…
