Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'An enquiry into some of the circumstances and principles which regulate the production of pictures on the retina of the human eye, with their measure of endurance, their colours and changes' by William Scoresby
Reference number: RR/2/218
Date: 09 February 1854
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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The author admits in the work to not having referred to previous researches in the subject. Refers to work by Newton [?], Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, D'Arcy [?], Epinus [?], Darwin [Charles Darwin?], Chevriul [?], Fechner [Gustav Fechner?], and Plateau [?].
Subject: Physiology
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']
- Reference number
- RR/2/218
- Earliest possible date
- 09 February 1854
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- Letter on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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Charles Wheatstone, Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'An enquiry into some of the circumstances and principles which regulate the production of pictures on the retina of the human eye, with their measure of endurance, their colours and changes' by William Scoresby, 09 February 1854, RR/2/218, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_2_218/referees-report-by-charles-wheatstone-on-a-paper-an-enquiry-into-some-of-the-circumstances-and-principles-which-regulate-the-production-of-pictures-on-the-retina-of-the-human-eye-with-their-measure-of-endurance-their-colours-and-changes-by-william-scoresby, accessed on 17 January 2025
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Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'An enquiry into some of the circumstances and principles which regulate the production of pictures on the retina of the human eye, with their measure of endurance, their colours and changes' by William Scoresby
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