On double vision
Date
1684
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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vol10 p51
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height (page): 307mm
width (page): 178mm
width (page): 178mm
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Description
Diagrams illustrating optical problems discussed by William Molyneux. The paper was read at the Dublin Society on 10 December 1683, and published in a revised form in Molyneux's Dioptrica nova (1692), part II, ch. 7, 'An optick problem of double vision'. (See Papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society, vol. 1, p. 335n.)
The figures are copied from LBO/10/037.
The figures are copied from LBO/10/037.
Transcription
In Fig 1st, A, B, are the to Eyes, C the higher object. D the further Object, if both Eyes open are fixt upon C, the Object D shall seem Double, and that shutting the left Eye A, the left Image of D disapears, and Shutting the right Eye B, the right Image of D disappears.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Related fellows
William Molyneux (1656 - 1698, British) , Science writer
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