The Optics of Acuteness of Sight

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Nov 1900

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Nature, Volume 63, Issue 1621, pp. 82-83 (1900).

Physics

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OBSERVATIONS have been frequently made upon the remarkable eyesight of certain uncivilised tribes. Travellers have told us of guides who could see four of Jupiter's satellites with the unaided eye; and lately Sir Redvers Buller has declared that the average Boer can see at least two miles further than the British soldier. It is of some interest to consider whether this superiority is due to a real change in the optical properties of the eye, or merely to some special ability to interpret slight differences of impression, which might be acquired by practice. As we have as yet no data as to the constants of a Boer's eye, we may raise the question whether such feats are optically impossible for an Englishman's eye.

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