Literary memoirs of Germany and the North : being a choice collection of essays on the following interesting subjects ... / Done from the Latin and High-Dutch, by a society of gentlemen.

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1759
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    thpm in the eve are determined. And though BH the lines analogous to th ^ A sanal()O.0us to them in the eye be he greater than ^’^7 . fi wiU degenerate into a circular one > and equal-, lo that the emptu- <0 , - ° i fo a feventh part of the the diameter of fuchlittle arc es • b J diftantfeven twenty fifth ;1>SZ “ It'S ttS n'eC £ dk and fo we Rid iot fee, what, in the prefent conformation of the eye we’look directly at* : But as this nerve is inferted laterally into tee bulb, it Rcc follows, that we loofe only fuch objefts, as are placedTideways under a certain anT: Nor can one and the fameobjeftbe ever .nvifible to both eve, at the fame time, when the optic nerves are laterally implanted which would always be the cafe if they were fet in oppofite to the pupil. Min«* Another corolllry, which I deduce from the lame t,Wt dd- X^Z TheRe obits'Sbeing ol noufe /n kfion, nature muft have fo provided that it (hot,Id be the fmalleft poffible, and Ran be fo no otherwife but by the nerves entering the bulb in a perpem dTthe'nerves'had been direfted to the eyes in a right line from their on°ihs • that is, from the branches of the medulla oblongata, uns mu n-Sffanly have interfered with one or other ot the foregoing lemmata' For th/otium of the optic nerve being in a manner oppofite agamft the eye’ as at A. Tis plain that the nerve ltfelt (which I iuppofe perp*. - )• ’. i,.,]), f)r fnhere of the eye) muft be oppofite to the pupil, eye laterally at C, it had for '! Th/nerves^as^hey are not direftedto the eye in a right line, but are find united do thereby conform to both the poftulata, as will appear upon a Tan? on?isforaffign7ing this for the reafon of the union of the optic nerves, I fhall not fcruple to be of his opinion. ^ ^ lar. • fT- 7* * This remark was made long ünee by Dr. Jams Kelli, in his anatomy.
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