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- Title
Mike Land: a personal remembrance.
- Authors
Warrant, Eric
- Abstract
All of this work, and more, is summarised in his iconic landmark book together with Dan-Eric Nilsson - I Animal Eyes i (Land and Nilsson [6]) - and in his final wonderful book I Eyes to See i (Land [5]). We now know of ten different optical classes of eyes in the animal kingdom, and it is fair to say that Mike advanced our understanding of all of them, either by discovering them outright, or by revealing the great diversity of design subtleties and remarkable adaptations that are inherent to each. As I started my project, I soon discovered that two of those famous names that had just left Adrian's department for good also happened to be world authorities on the optics of animal eyes - Mike Land and Dan-Eric Nilsson. This allowed him to discover that their eyes were diffraction-limited, producing the crispest retinal images that the optics of any eye can provide, thus forever dispelling the idea that superposition eyes were necessarily poorly focussed (Land [3]).
- Subjects
MATHEMATICAL physics; PECTEN maximus; NOCTURNAL animals; VISUAL optics; VISUAL fields; RETINAL imaging
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural & Behavioral Physiology, 2022, Vol 208, Issue 2, p345
- ISSN
0340-7594
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00359-022-01547-0