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The study of nature must necessarily involve the study of the human senses as well. To be accurate in your observations of light and color in the outdoors, you must first of all b e familiar with the instrument you use continually: your eyes. It is very enlightening to learn to distinguish between what nature actually shows us and what our eyes add to, or subtract from, it. And no surroundings are more favorable for studying the peculiarities of the eye than those out of doors, to which we are adapted by nature.
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Minnaert, M. (1993). The Eye. In: Light and Color in the Outdoors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2722-9_6
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