Clouds used in visual persistence experiment
Date
1854
Creator
William Scoresby (1789 - 1857, British) , British Arctic scientist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 140mm
width (painting): 210mm
width (painting): 210mm
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Description
Cloudscape with an aperture viewed by the author from his veranda at Torquay in Dorset near sunset on 4 January 1854 and used in an experiment to show colours retained by the retina when the eyes were closed. This illustration shows the colour effects when the eyes were closed.
Unpublished illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “An enquiry into some of the circumstances and principles which regulate the production of pictures on the retina...part 2” by William Scoresby. The text was abstracted in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.7 (1854), pp.117-122.
Inscribed lower left in ink, ‘Illustration, p.55: No.2’’
William Scoresby junior (1789-1857) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1824.
Unpublished illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “An enquiry into some of the circumstances and principles which regulate the production of pictures on the retina...part 2” by William Scoresby. The text was abstracted in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.7 (1854), pp.117-122.
Inscribed lower left in ink, ‘Illustration, p.55: No.2’’
William Scoresby junior (1789-1857) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1824.
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