Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 137

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2. Doth optick Nerres to the place erhere the Nerves
3. meet, aud From thence on the rioht side ot the Fread
4. intothe Brain, and the other halt on the lest side of the
5. Sentorium comes in like manner From the lete Ade et
6. both Fyes. For the optick Nerres oFluch Animals a5
7. look the same ray with both tires (a5 oF Men, D095,
8. Stcep, OXen, IOC.) meet betore ther come into the
9. Bran, but the optick Nerres ot such Animals a5 d0
10. not lool the lame rar with both Fres (25 oF Fithes and
11. OF the Chameleon) do not meet, il I am righely in-
12. Formed.
13. Du. 16. WVhen a Man in the dark presses either cOr-
14. nex of his Fre rith his Finger, and turns his Fye array
15. From his Finger, he will sec a Circle ot Colours like
16. those in the Feather ot a Peacocks Tail: Do not thele
17. Colours arise From Cuch motions excited in the bottom
18. OF the Fve by the precture of thefinger, 25 at other
19. times are excited there by Lighe For cautins Vition: And
20. ertien a Man by a stroke upon his Five sces a Flat of
21. Light, are not the like Motions excited in the Retina
22. by thestroke:

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 137. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0313?run=74