As far as the gaze lasts. The history of vision and human progress

Our eyes can be a mirror of the soul, but they are also a mirror of our history. For millions of years, people invented new ways to look at the world around, see each other and themselves. So they mastered the fire, created writing, telescopes, printed books, photography, cinema, television, smartphones ...

Vision is a process.

With each new discovery, not only what surrounded the person changed: he himself changed and how and what he saw. After all, vision and progress are inseparable. Subminining the reader into the evolution of mankind and the history of the most important inventions, Susan Danham Wade shows how visual technologies made us rulers of nature armed with super -modern gadgets.

But have we reached the limit? Where else will our inquisitive look start us?