Description | Paper regarding the optical properties of the eyes and vision. Briggs discusses the parts of the eyes that are critical to vision and how these parts function together with the brain to enable sight.
Subject: Physiology / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Collections of the Royal Society as 'A new theory of vision, communicated to the Royal Society, by W. B. M. D.'
Read to the Royal Society on 15 March and 2 May 1682. |