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Description: Image of plate XXX from Thomas Young's "Lectures", publ. 1807, the text of lectures to London's Royal Institution in 1802. Shows Young's grasp of ocular anatomy, the fact that an image is upside down on the retina, notice of the "two slit" phenomenon, which supports wave theory of light... etc.
Title: Young-Thomas-Lectures1807-Plate XXX
Credit: Original publication: A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts. YOUNG, Thomas, Immediate source: Derived from .jpg sent to me by bookseller selling the book it is in when I asked if I could share at Wp, told him that meant giving up rights, releasing for anyone to use. (http://www.jonathanahill.com)
Author: Thomas Young (Life time: 1773 – 10 May 1829)
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