Paper, 'Internal reflexions in the eye' by Frank C Newall
Reference number: PP/2/44
Date: 1883
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Newall writes: 'The observation I have to record first came under my notice three or four years ago. Often when working at night by the light of a candle, in a room otherwise dark, my attention was caught by a very faint light some way out of the line of direct vision. This seemed to defy nearer inspection; for the instant I turned my eyes towards it, it was gone, thus showing that there was no objective cause, but that the light was due to some internal reflexion in the eye.'
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.
Subject: Optics
Received 18 January 1883. Read 25 January 1883. Communicated by Michael Foster.
A version of this paper was published in volume 34 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Internal reflexions in the eye' [attributed to Hugh Frank Newall].
- Reference number
- PP/2/44
- Earliest possible date
- 1883
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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- 21 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Frank C Newall
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Frank C Newall, Paper, 'Internal reflexions in the eye' by Frank C Newall, 1883, PP/2/44, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_2_44/paper-internal-reflexions-in-the-eye-by-frank-c-newall, accessed on 21 June 2025
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Date: 31st December 1883
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1882.0070
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 34, 1882-1883
1882-1883 Reference number: PP/2
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Michael Foster
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Dates: 1882 - 1894
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