Theory of vision
Date
15 March 1682
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p15
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 208mm
width (page): 168mm
width (page): 168mm
Description
Figure illustrating William Briggs's theory of vision, which was read to the Royal Society on 15 March 1682. It was printed in Philosophical Collections, 6 (1682).
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 15 March 1682, ‘Mr. Aston read a paper of William Briggs, M.D. concerning a new theory of vision, explaining the cause, why, though the picture of the object be made in both eyes, and so be seen by both, yet the imagination forms but one idea, which he conceived to be an harmonious tension of corresponding fibres of the optic nerve. Some objections were made about the tension of such fibres; but because the debating thereof would have been too long for the present meeting, it was respited to another' (Birch 4:136).
Printed as fig. 1 in W. Briggs, ‘A New Theory of Vision’, Philosophical Collections, 6 (1682), pp. 167-78 (legend for figure at p. 178).
Printed as fig. 1 in W. Briggs, ‘A New Theory of Vision’, Philosophical Collections, 6 (1682), pp. 167-78 (legend for figure at p. 178).