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CATALOGUE. — ^PHYSICAL OPTICS. 



*Petit on the eye of the turkey. A. P. 1735. 



123. 

 *Petit on the eye of the owl. A. P. 173G. 



121. 

 •Petit on the eyes of the frog and the tortoise. 



A. P. 1737. 142. 

 Stancari on the eyes of insects. C. Bon. I. 



301. 

 Zinn on the comparative anatomy of the eye. 



C. Gott. 1754. IV. 247. Commentat. Gott. 



1778. 1. App. 47. 

 Haller on the eyes of some fishes. A. P. 1762. 



75. H. 42. 

 Brown. Ph. tr. 1778. 794. 



The cornea of the flying fish is very flat. 

 Andre on the eye of the monoculus polyphe- 



mus. Ph. tr. 17«2. 

 Hey on the eye of the seal. Manch. M. III. 



274. 



Shows that the nerve does not enter in the axis. 

 Bonvicini on the blindness of snails. Soc. 



Ital. VII. 291. 

 +P. Smith on the eyes of birds. Ph.tr. 1795. 



263. 

 Home's Croonian lecture. Ph.tr. 1796. 1. 

 LaCep^de on the eyes of the anabieps. M. 



Inst. II. 372. B. Soc. Phil. n. 8. 



A double iris and a divided cornea, but only one lens. 



Young. Ph. tr. 1801. 



Immediate Functions of the Eye. 



Hooke Animadv. on Hevelius. 

 Makes the minimum of vision .5'. 



Mariotte and Pecquet on the insensible 

 spot of the retina, and on the seat of vi- 

 sion. Ph. tr. 1668. III.668. 1670. V. 1023. 

 A. P. 1. 68. 



Briggson the theory of vision. Ph. tr. l683. 

 XIII. 171. Hooke. Ph. coll. n. 6. I67. 



Lahire on vision. A. P. IX. 355. 

 Tbinki no change of conformation poisibl«> 



Meiy on the principal organ of vision. A. P. 



1704.261. H. 12. 

 Petit on the vision of infants. A. P. 1727. 



246. H. 10. 

 *Porterfield on the external and internal mo- 

 tions of the eye. Ediiib. med. essays. III. 



IV. 

 Porterfieldon\heeye. 2 v. 8. 

 Weiibrecht on the motions of the pupil. C. 



Petr. XIII. 349. 

 Leroy on the accommodation of the eye to 



different distances. A. P. 1 755. 594. 

 Mayer on the powers of sight. C. Gott. 1754. 



IV. 120. Roz. Intr. 1.241. 



The minimum .*' for detached objects, ]' for contiguou* 

 objects in common day light : and in a different degree of 

 illumination the angle varies as the 6th root of the light. 



Dalembert. A. P. 1765. - 



Maintains that the eye is not achromatic. 



Darcy on the duration of the sensation of 

 sight. A. P. 1765. 439. 



Fontana dei moti dell' iride. 4. R. S. Roz. 

 X. 25. 



On the changes of the eye. Nich. I. 305. 



Olbcrs de oculi mutationibus internis. 4. 

 Gott. 1780. R.S. 



Herschel on the magnitude of the optic pen- 

 cil. Ph. tr. 1786.500. 



A pencil of j,iyj of an inch was sufBcient, with a high 

 magnifier. 



Herschel on the powers of the prismatic co- 

 lours to heat and illuminate. Ph. tr. 800. 

 255. Ph. M, VII. 311. 

 The greenish yellow rays the most effective. 



Venturi's optical considerations. Soc. Ital. 

 III. 268. 



Finds the dispersion of the eye nearly equal to that of 

 glass. 



Maskelyne on the effect of the different refran- 

 gibility of light in vision. Ph. tr. 1789. 256. 



Thinks the effect too small to be perceived. 



Young on vision. Ph. tr. 1793- I69. 



