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That is the tradition. I tooke a bodkin gh & put it betwixt my eye & the bone as neare to the Backside of my eye as I could: & pressing my eye with the end of
by pvg 2y ago
That is the tradition.
I tooke a bodkin gh & put it betwixt my eye & the bone as neare to the Backside of my eye as I could: & pressing my eye with the end of it (soe as to make the curvature a, bcdef in my eye) there appeared severall white darke & coloured circles
https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/NATP00004#:~:text=58-,I%20tooke%20a%20bodkin,-gh%20%26%20put%20it https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/NAT...
- sebmellen 2y agoWow, I never knew that Newton risked retinal detachment to prove his theories.
- gnabgib 2y agoNot a Neal Stephenson fan then? (The Baroque Cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle)
- parpfish 2y agoAlso google “Giles Brindley” for another great self-experimentation tale
- krispyfi 2y agoAlso Albert Hofmann and Alexander Shulgin