This article was originally published with the title “ Polarized Light and Animal Navigation ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 193 No. 1 (July 1955), p. 88 doi:10.1038 ...
IT was discovered by Haidinger 1 in 1844 that the human eye can detect the direction of polarization of linearly polarized light. Looking at a white field through a nicol, one sees a yellow figure ...