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SIGHT

Volume 17 · 88 words · 1797 Edition

or VISION. See ANATOMY, no 142, and Index subjoined to OPTICS.

Imperfection of Sight with regard to Colours. Under the article Colours, is given an instance of a strange deficiency of sight in some people who could not distinguish between the different colours. In the Phil. Transf. Vol. LXVIII. p. 611, we have an account of a gentleman who could not distinguish a claret colour from black. These imperfections are totally unaccountable from anything we yet know concerning the nature of this sense.

Second Sight. See SECOND SIGHT.