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Brain 2006 129(4):1070-1073; doi:10.1093/brain/awl049
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A technical eye inspired by biology

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THE MOVING TABLET OF THE EYE: THE ORIGINS OF MODERN EYE MOVEMENT RESEARCH By Nicholas J. Wade and Benjamin W. Tatler 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press Price £75.00 Hardback ISBN: 0198566166 Price £29.95 Paperback ISBN: 0198566174

It was Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), the grandfather of Charles Darwin, who first wrote about visual vertigo in his Zoonomia, or, The Laws of Organic Life in 1794: ‘many people, when they arrive at 50 or 60 years of age, are affected with slight vertigo; which is generally but wrongly ascribed to indigestion, but in reality arises from a beginning defect of their sight ... these people do not see objects so distinctly as formerly, and by exerting their eyes more than usual they perceive the apparent motions of objects, and confound them with the real motions of them; and therefore cannot accurately balance themselves so as easily to preserve their perpendicularity by them’. Historically, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Thomas Brandt

Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany


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