Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16137

    Cartesian diagrams of vision

    Date
    late 17th century
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p391
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 294mm
    width (page): 188mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
    Content object
    human body
       > eye
    Description
    Diagrams of the eye, including how one sees with two eyes; image of a hand indicating the difference between single- and double-eye vision; and image of a man with a divining road (with a dog). Keyed, but with no text. See the similar diagrams in Rene Descartes, Specimina Philosophiæ (Amsterdam: D. Elsevier, 1677). From the papers of Robert Boyle.
    Related fellows
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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       > Europe
          > France
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