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### Spring, 2026

  [### FYSEMR 51X: Changing Perspectives: the Science of Optics in the Visual Arts

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2026 

 

 Renaissance artists began to create stunningly realistic representations of their world. Paintings started to resemble photographs, suggesting that artists had solved technical problems that escaped their forebears. Our brains effortlessly deduce three-dimensional scenes... 

 

  



### Fall, 2025

  [### Physics 141: The Physics of Sensory Systems in Biology

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2025 

 

 Living organisms use sensory systems to inform themselves of the sights, sounds, and smells of their surrounding environments. Sensory systems are physical measuring devices, and are therefore subject to certain limits imposed by physics. Here we will consider the physics of... 

 

  



### Spring, 2021

  [### Freshman Seminar - Changing Perspectives: the science of optics in the visual arts

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2021 

 

 Renaissance artists developed many techniques to create stunningly realistic representations of the natural world. From a two-dimensional visual image on the retina, the human brain effortlessly comprehends its three dimensional surroundings. But faithfully transferring... 

 

  



### Fall, 2020

  [### Physics 141: The Physics of Sensory Systems in Biology

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2020 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/76535) 

 

 Living organisms use sensory systems to inform themselves of the sights, sounds, and smells of their surrounding environments. Sensory systems are physical measuring devices, and are therefore subject to certain limits imposed by physics. Here we will consider the physics of...