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The Influence of Ocular Light Perception on Metabolism in Man and in Animal (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979)
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The Influence of Ocular Light Perception on Metabolism in Man and in Animal (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979)
Series: Topics in Environmental Physiology and Medicine
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This book was written to show that light is a primal element of
life. All life originates and develops under the influence of the
light of the sun, that "super terrestrial natural force" (Goethe).
Sunlight influences the vital processes not onlyofthe plant (e. g.
, heliotropism, photosynthesis) and the animal (e. g. , color
change, maturation of the gonads) but of man as well. The human
organism too reacts "heliotropically," as the 24 hour rhythm of the
sleep-waking cycle demonstrates. of Artists have always perceived
clearly the intensive stimulatory effect sunlight on their
activity. One is reminded here ofCesare Lombroso, who wrote to his
daughter "that thoughts come in the greatest profusion when (my)
room is flooded with the sun's rays. " Richard Wagner exclaimed:
"Ifonly the sun would come out, I would have the score finished in
no time. " Bernard Shaw had a little cottage where he worked that
could be turned according to the position of the sun. The composer
Humperdinck wrote: "The sun is indispensable for my work; that is
why it is important for me to have my study face east or south. "
As these few examples indicate, it is above all those active in the
arts who intuitively grasp the positive influence of sunlight on
the psycho-physical effi ciency of their organism. In an age,
however, when fluorescent lighting turns night into day, we are in
danger of forgetting that man is a creature of nature as well as of
culture.
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