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  • Mesentery: Four figures of the lacteals, the aorta & mesenterica inferior, the urinary bladder and a demonstration of vision. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821.
  • Jumping spider (Phidippus audax)
  • Sclera (white part) of the human eye
  • Crested gecko (Correlophus ciliatus) eye
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Hoverfly eye
  • Male jumping spider (possibly Platycryptus undatus)
  • Human eye
  • Double vision
  • An Optometer on a pillar stand
  • Visual distortion
  • Male jumping spider (Platycryptus undatus)
  • Contact lens
  • Cross-section through the optic vesicle (early eye), chick
  • An artist measures a model of the human body from a distance with one eye shut; representing the faculty of perception in extended space in phrenological classification. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Brown jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Visual distortion
  • An Optometer on a pillar stand
  • Orange and white jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Hoverfly eyes, SEM
  • Human eye
  • A voyeur watches women taking a bath while above a monk is martyred; representing the sense of sight. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Colour vision.
  • Visual distortion
  • Jumping spider (Hentzia)
  • Pond turtle (Emydidae) eye
  • An ideal human head looking at something distant. Drawing, c. 1794, after N. Poussin.
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Jupiter waves a wand at a woman looking at herself in a mirror, while a travelling merchant of spectacles and a blind man walk by; allegory of the conscientious use of sight. Engraving by P. de Jode.