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Vision

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Images

  • A man behind a woman who is combing her hair; representing the sense of sight. Engraving.
  • Looking up from underneath a microscope
  • Retinal ganglion cell
  • A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.
  • Visual distortion
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Brown jumping spider (unknown species)
  • An old woman wearing spectacles; representing the sense of sight. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • Colour vision
  • Visual distortion
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Works

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    A treatise on the diseases of the eye, and their remedies; to which is prefixed, the Anatomy of the eye; the theory of vision; And the several Species of Imperfect Sight. Illustrated with Copper Plates. By Geo. Chandler, Surgeon.

    Chandler, George, surgeon. | Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]
  • view A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.
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    A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.

    Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676 | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 26944i
  • view Sclera (white part) of the human eye
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    Sclera (white part) of the human eye

    Macroscopic Solutions
  • view Zur Physiologie des Gesichtssinnes / von A. Classen.
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    Zur Physiologie des Gesichtssinnes / von A. Classen.

    | Date: 1876
  • view Eyesight, good & bad : a treatise on the exercise and preservation of vision.
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    Eyesight, good & bad : a treatise on the exercise and preservation of vision.

    Carter, Robert Brudenell, 1828-1918 | Date: 1880
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