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Paper, 'Of the power of the eye to adjust itself to different distances when deprived of the crystalline lens' [Croonian Lecture] by Everard Home

Reference number: L&P/11/171

Date: 1801

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The Croonian Lecture. On the power of the eye to adjust itself to different distances, when deprived of the crystalline lens'

Read 5 November 1801

Reference number
L&P/11/171
Earliest possible date
1801
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Ink on paper
Page extent
26 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Of the power of the eye to adjust itself to different distances when deprived of the crystalline lens' [Croonian Lecture] by Everard Home, 1801, L&P/11/171, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_171/paper-of-the-power-of-the-eye-to-adjust-itself-to-different-distances-when-deprived-of-the-crystalline-lens-croonian-lecture-by-everard-home, accessed on 13 September 2026

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