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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 137, page id 1677894601:0313
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(I
Doth optick Nerres to the place erhere the Nerves
meet, aud From thence on the rioht side ot the Fread
intothe Brain, and the other halt on the lest side of the
Sentorium comes in like manner From the lete Ade et
both Fyes. For the optick Nerres oFluch Animals a5
look the same ray with both tires (a5 oF Men, D095,
Stcep, OXen, IOC.) meet betore ther come into the
Bran, but the optick Nerres ot such Animals a5 d0
not lool the lame rar with both Fres (25 oF Fithes and
OF the Chameleon) do not meet, il I am righely in-
Formed.
Du. 16. WVhen a Man in the dark presses either cOr-
nex of his Fre rith his Finger, and turns his Fye array
From his Finger, he will sec a Circle ot Colours like
those in the Feather ot a Peacocks Tail: Do not thele
Colours arise From Cuch motions excited in the bottom
OF the Fve by the precture of thefinger, 25 at other
times are excited there by Lighe For cautins Vition: And
ertien a Man by a stroke upon his Five sces a Flat of
Light, are not the like Motions excited in the Retina
by thestroke: