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Nouvelle découverte touchant la veüe.

Publication Details

Paris: Frederic Leonard, 1668 CE.

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 blind spot of Mariotte…, Copenhagen & London, 1939.

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Entry Number#1481.1
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/2472
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLnouvelle-dcouverte-touchant-la-vee

Geographic Context

Publication place: Paris

Mentioned in annotation: Copenhagen; London