(3) At the opposite end of the plank there is attached a flat board,
35 centimetres long and 30 centimetres wide. Attached to the edge of
the board which faces the head-rest is a piece of black cardboard
40 centimetres long by 35 centimetres broad. In the centre of the
cardboard is a rectangular aperture, 7 centimetres by 14 centimetres.
On the upper surface of the board are two slots, one at either side.
Sliding within each of these slots is a block of wood to which is
attached an upright sheet of black-painted tin, 15 centimetres wide and
20 centimetres high. The surfaces of these tins lie in planes parallel
to the plane of the four wires in the head-rest, when the latter is
at right angles to the plank. When their surfaces are equidistant
from the wires, the inner vertical edges of the tins are separated
from each other by 3 centimetres. The sides of the slots, in which
the blocks with their tins slide, are fitted with millimetre scales,
thus enabling the experimenter to determine the distance of the edges
from the corneæ. The point on the scale at which an edge was exactly 2
metres from the vertical plane of the wires was chosen as the "zero"
point, and if this distance was decreased by moving an edge forward,
the latter was said to stand at "minus" one, two, or more millimetres,
as the case might be. Likewise, an edge was said to stand at "plus"
the number of millimetres' distance beyond the zero point if it had
been moved at a greater distance than 2 metres from the wires. A piece
of ground glass attached to the distal end of apparatus enabled the
experimenter to secure a uniform illumination, the room being darkened
and the light coming from a 32-candle-power electric lamp set about a
metre and a half behind and on a slightly lower level than the glass.
It was found that by shading the lamp itself and admitting a dim
light to the room by means of drawing down only the ordinary thin
window-shades, the edges could be made to seem almost isolated in space
and to stand out in clear relief.
The subjects of the experiment were Messrs. Bell, Flexner, and Tait.
Each subject determined the equality-point and the threshold for the
normal primary position of the eyes, for the eyes in a lateral position
of 15° and in a lateral position of 30°, both to the left and to the
right.
Eyes at 0° means the following: that the most anterior part of the two
corneæ lies in a plane parallel to and two metres' distance from the
plane in which the two parallel edges lie at 0. Eyes at 30° to the left
means that a line drawn in front of the two corneæ intersects such a
line at an angle of 30°, the left eye being at the distal end of the
line. In calculating the visual angles 7.4 mm. are added in order to
compensate for the distance from the extreme anterior portion of the
cornea to the nodal point of the eye.
The results for Mr. Tait are as follows:
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