This diagram is based on an illustration from Thomas Malton’s A Compleat Treatise on 1775. It provides a model of vision as a cone of rays travelling from various globes towards the eye. Turner used it in Lecture 2 to discuss Malton’s first theorem that ‘Objects appear to have to each other, respectively, as the angle under which they are seen’.
Gallery label, August 2004
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