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RefNoPT/43/1
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'Contributions to the physiology of vision. Part the second' by Charles Wheatstone
Date[1852]
Description48 manuscript pages and two plates showing mirrors, stereoscopes, and optic axes.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture.— Contributions to the physiology of vision.— Part the second. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, phenomena of binocular vision (continued)'.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 15 January 1852.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 6, 1854.
Extent50p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsCurrently unavailable whilst undergoing conservation, available from 19 April 2023
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0044
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1852.0001
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CodePersonNameDates
NA7559Wheatstone; Sir; Charles (1802 - 1875); physicist1802 - 1875
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