| Reference number | RR/2/218 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'An enquiry into some of the circumstances and principles which regulate the production of pictures on the retina of the human eye, with their measure of endurance, their colours and changes' by William Scoresby |
| Date | 9 February 1854 |
| Description | Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The author admits in the work to not having referred to previous researches in the subject. Refers to work by Newton [?], Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, D'Arcy [?], Epinus [?], Darwin [Charles Darwin?], Chevriul [?], Fechner [Gustav Fechner?], and Plateau [?].
Subject: Physiology
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'] |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Letter on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0136 Vol.6 1854 |
| Related records in the catalogue | AP.35.1 |
| RR/2/219 |
| AP/35/1 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7559 | Wheatstone; Sir; Charles (1802 - 1875); physicist | 1802 - 1875 |
| NA6138 | Scoresby; William (1789 - 1857) | 1789 - 1857 |