Animal Eyes

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Provides a comprehensive account of all known types of eye, and covers the way they work, from optics to behaviour. The ways that eyes sample the world in space and time are considered, and the evolutionary origins of eyes are discussed.

'Charming and excellent book ... Land and Nilsson are acknowledged authorities on invertebrate optics, and their collaboration in this book is a very successful one ... Their handling of the mathematical aspects of optics is elegant and remarkably penetrating.' -The Quarterly Review of Biology

Contents
1 The origin of vision
2 Light and vision
3 What makes a good eye?
4 Aquatic eyes: the evolution of the lens
5 Lens eyes on land
6 Mirrors in animals
7 Apposition compound eyes
8 Superposition eyes
9 Movements of the eyes