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Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

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The Eye: A Natural History

Broadening the vision

Simon Ings
Bloomsbury, 322pp, £17.99,
Marcus Berkmann
Wednesday, 28th March 2007

‘Popular science’: for some readers this remains a problematic category. I’m sure proper scientists look askance at civilians reading such books on public transport, imagining their own abstruse specialities dumbed down for the hard-of-thinking. And the vast mass of arts graduates, who hate and fear science, remembering the bad trousers and unfortunate hairstyles of science undergraduates in their day, happily admit that they know nothing of the subject and understand even less. Some people I know have been boasting for nearly 20 years that they gave up A Brief History of Time before the end. It’s all too sad for words.

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