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Wonders of the Eye.

March 1st, 2008 at 4:47 am » Comments (0)

Wonders of the Eye. – the human eye is one of the most wonderful, as well as delicate, organs of the body. It is the window through which the heart, mind and soul of man shines. Sorrow or joy, reformers, pain or pleasure, sunshine or shadow or reflected through this wondrous camera of light; the [...]



Muscles of the Eye

March 1st, 2008 at 4:43 am » Comments (0)

Muscles of the Eye.-I’m turning the flap we see four of the six delicate, who with all strong muscles which I would hold I firmly in its bony orbit, but also moved upward toward the canopied vaults of heaven, downward to view the beauties of nature on earth; or sideways to the right or left, [...]



The Eye and Its Wonders

October 10th, 2007 at 4:53 am » Comments (0)

Beautiful Plate of the Eye.–The beautiful flesh-colored engraving at the right-hand top corner of this exquisite anatomical plate gives a strikingly natural, life-size representation of the human eye, together with its external appendages, the eyebrows, the eyelids, and the lachrymal or tear glands.

As I write this I have not published pictures of Chart 3, but [...]



Modern Science Gives us Vision

July 10th, 2007 at 11:14 am » Comments (0)

One of the things that the Great Workman (see my last post) do not give us as people is universal good vision.  When I was in fifth grade my vision went south and I had start wearing glasses.  A few years later when I went in the eighth grade I tried wearing contacts.  They were hard contacts and [...]



View of the Eye

March 17th, 2007 at 2:52 pm » Comments (0)

The next section covers The View of the Eye on page 36.
The next section goes into a short description of the image of the eye as provider from a profile of a human skull which includes some of the muscles and nerves associated with the eyeball. It does not include a detailed description were [...]