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MARIOTTE, Edme (1620 – 1684)

MARIOTTE, Edme (1620 – 1684)

1620 – 1684

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1668 CE

#1481.1

Nouvelle découverte touchant la veüe.

Discovery of the blind spot in the retina, the existence of which Mariotte deduced from his experiments investigating the fate of light rays striking the base of the optic nerve. Facsimile reprint in J. Brons, The bli…