Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920, Seabroke, G. M. (George Mitchell), 1848-1918 · London, Macmillan and co. · leaf 92
heeye, the larger is the angle A, o, b, and also a, o, h, andtherefore the image on the retina is larger ; but thereis a limit to the nearness to which the object can bebrought, for, as we found with the candle, the distancebetween the lens and the image must be increased as theobject approaches,… … FiU. ^i.—Action ot a Loiig-sigh ted Eye. there is an adjustment of this soj-t, but it is liraited sothat objects begin to get indistinct when broughtnearer the eye than perhaps six inches, because the raysbecome too divergent for the lens to bring them to afocus on the retina, and they tend to come…
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