Descartes' idea of vision, showing passage of nervous impulse from the eye to the pineal gland and so to the muscles. From Rene Descartes' 'Opera Philosophica', 1692 (Tractatus de homine). Woodcut

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Descartes' idea of vision, showing passage of nervous impulse from the eye to the pineal gland and so to the muscles. From Rene Descartes' 'Opera Philosophica', 1692 (Tractatus de homine). Woodcut

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