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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/10/24-25.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the motions of the eye, in illustration of the uses of the muscles and nerves of the orbit'.

Communicated by Sir H [Humphry] Davy. Read 20 March 1823.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/16/17
Earliest possible date
1823
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Ink on paper
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51 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Bell

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Charles Bell, Paper, 'Of the motions of the eye in illustration of the uses of the muscles and nerves of the orbit' by Charles Bell, 1823, PT/16/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_16_17/paper-of-the-motions-of-the-eye-in-illustration-of-the-uses-of-the-muscles-and-nerves-of-the-orbit-by-charles-bell, accessed on 15 October 2024

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