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fo copioufly flow, that the Membranes appeared 

 flaccid, and yet in fix Hours Space the Bulb of 

 the Eye was again replete with its Humour, and 

 that without the Application of any Medicines. 

 Antoniui Niick dc Duclu novofaUvaliy &c. 



Moreover, it is remarkable, that the Cornea 

 T^iinica [horny or pellucid Coat of the Eye] doth 

 i\pi lie in the fame Superficies with the White of 

 the Eye, but rifeth up, as it were a Hillock, a- 

 bove its Convexity, and is of an hyperbolical or 

 parabolical Figure 5 fo that tho' the Eye feems 

 to be perfectly round, in reality it is not lb, but 

 the Iris thereof is protuberant above the White ; 

 and the reafon is, becaufe that if the Cornea tu- 

 nica, or cryftalline Humour, had been concen- 

 trical to the Selerodes^ the Eye could not have 

 admitted a whole Hemifphere at one View, & fie 

 Aniraalis incolumitati in multis rebus minus caiitum 

 ejfet^ as Scheiner well obferves. In many things 

 there had not been fufficient Caution or Care ta- 

 ken for the Animal's Safety. 



And now (that I may ufe the ^^- MoreV ^/?- 

 Words of a late Author of our 'l^^L'^""-^ ^' 

 own) xhe Eye is already fo perfedt, 

 that I believe the Reafon of a Man would eafily 

 have refl:ed here, and admir'd at his own Contri- 

 vance. For he being able to move his whole 

 Body upward and downward, and on every fide, 

 might have unawares thought himfelf fufiicient- 

 ly well iprovided for; but Nature hath added 

 Mujcles alfo to the Eyes, that no Perfedion 



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