The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 32
the various media. With this axis, however, the axis of vision (v) does not coincide, for, curiously enough, we do not see straight out of our eyes, but obliquely out of them. Fig. 3. v G This is due to the fact that the " fovea centralis " (/) does not lie exactly at the posterior pole of the eye… … To illustrate how each visual axis traverses the cornea to the inner side of its centre : drawn to scale one-half life size. the two nodal points are reduced to one, and then traverses the cornea to the inner side of its centre. In consequence of this, the corneal image,
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