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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 [...]