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2. On the Extent to which the Theory of Vision requires us to regard the Eye as a Camera Obscura

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

George Wilson
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Extract

The object of this communication was to combat the current theory of vision, as exercised by vertebrate animals, in so far as it teaches that the light which reaches the retina from without, thereafter passes through that membrane, and is absorbed by the pigment of the choroid behind it.

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Proceedings 1854-55
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 3 , 1857 , pp. 303 - 305
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1857

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