This book, written by a team of young scientists from the Institute of Optics, aims to answer questions such as: What is light? What is an optical instrument? How is the eye like an optical instrument? How do we explain human vision? and bring the reader closer to the exciting world of optics and photonics.
The book is written in an informative way, aimed at the general public, but with special emphasis on students of all levels of Secondary Education and presents a wide variety of experiments related to the different optical phenomena and instruments, where the steps to follow. All these experiments are preceded by the explanation of the concepts necessary for their realization and interpretation, and accompanied by numerous illustrations and curiosities.