Eye and sun. Vavilov S.

The book “Eye and Sun”, created by an outstanding scientist, academician S. I. Vavilov (1891-1951), became the classic of popular science literature. It presents the story of the study of light, tells about the structure of the human eye and the properties of the radiation of the sun. The texts of the famous physicist G. G. Slyusarev, as well as the judgments of the thinkers of the past - R. Descartes, H. Guygens, I. Newton, J. Berkel, O. J. Frell and I.V. Goethe, complement the book.