CONTENTS OF PART IV. 



BOOK III. (continued). 



CHAPTER III. 



SIGHT. 



SECTION I. 



ON THE GENERAL STRUCTURE OF THE EYE, AND ON THE FORMATION 



OP THE RETINAL IMAGE. 



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702. Dioptic Mechanisms and Visual Impulses 1139 



703. The General Structure of the Eye. The Formation of the Retinal 



Image 1140 



704. A simple optic system; its cardinal points. The refractive surfaces 



and media of the eye 1144 



705. The optic constants of the Eye. The Diagrammatic Eye . . 1147 



706. The paths of the rays of light through the eye 1148 



707. The retinal image in relation to the sensations excited by it . . 1150 



SECTION II. 



THE FACTS OF ACCOMMODATION. 



708. The eye can accommodate for far and near objects ; far and near 



limits of accommodation ........ 1151 



709. Scheiner's experiment 1152 



710. Emrnetropic, myopic, hypermetropic and presbyopic eyes . 1154 



711. The changes observed in the eye during accommodation . . . 1155 



F. b 



