The Plates from the Seventh Book of the De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius, (1514-1564) Plate 73 - This figure, the first of those appended to the present chapter, represents one half of the eye divided by a single antero-posterior incision passing through the visual nerve, that is to say, just as if one were to draw half of an onion divided lengthwise from that surface which had been in contact and continuity with the other half.

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