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3. Note on the Refractive and Dispersive Powers of the Humours of the Eye, determined by Experiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

John Adie Esq.
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The author's object in undertaking these experiments, was to discover if the achromatism of the eye could be accounted for by the differences in the dispersive ratios of the fluids forming that organ.

The indices for several of the fixed lines were determined in the aqueous humour; with the crystalline no satisfactory result could be obtained.

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Proceedings 1848-49
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 2 , 1851 , pp. 232
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1850

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