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"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...
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W. W. Norton & Company
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2017.
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English
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An exploration of the eccentric ways that human senses were perceived throughout the Enlightenment era reveals how the way we think about the senses has changed throughout history and how today's sensory experiences are representative of the beliefs of earlier times.
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