Experimental outlines, for a new theory of colours, light and vision : with critical remarks, on Sir Isaac Newton's opinions, and some new experiments on radiant caloric / by Joseph Reade, M.D.

  • Reade, Joseph.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Experimental outlines, for a new theory of colours, light and vision : with critical remarks, on Sir Isaac Newton's opinions, and some new experiments on radiant caloric / by Joseph Reade, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reader to an examination of the origi- nals. Indeed, the trouble and expense are so small, and the apparatus so sim- ple, that no per son can want the means. Should the present Volume he re- ceived with approval, the Author pledges himself, that the second shall contain many new, and he presumes to hope, interesting experiments, ten.«• ding to prove, that the present theory of vision is founded on error, After which, he intends to publish a work, on each particular disease of the human eye. A treatise on the Cataract, illus- trating a new method of operating, and a second edition of his Book, on the Fistula Lachrymalis, are ready for the press. To be an able Oculist requires, not only manual dexterity, a keen eye, and