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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8713-2Wells’ first ., on binocular vision, is reprinted in this chapter. The text follows, as closely as possible, the format of the ., the title page of which is shown in Figure 1. It was published in 1792, while Wells was a physician at the Finsbury Dispensary, and reprinted in 1818, together with the

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The Scientific Life of Wells,d conducted experimental studies in vision and vertigo, he proposed a theory of how dew forms, and he speculated on the mechanism of natural selection. His medical researches advanced the understanding of the colour of blood, and established a link between rheumatism and heart disease. Despite the o

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Wells and the Origins of Vestibular Research,ular vision. One of the ‘other subjects’ he experimented upon was visible position, and variations in it produced by body tilt and body rotation. The latter produces visual vertigo following rotation. By investigating visual vertigo Wells was opening up a new sense for scientific scrutiny. Aristotle

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The Scientific Vision of Wells,al approaches to binocular vision that were then current with the critical acumen he applied to his experimental studies. In so doing, Wells defined an interpretation of space perception that was neither nativist nor empiricist. The sources he cited were not, however, solely philosophical but mainly

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Distinguished Oblivion, intellectual heart, however, was firmly founded in natural philosophy. It is not clear why he started his experimental enquiries in vision. His medical dissertation from Leyden was concerned with cold. However, once his interests were stimulated by single vision with two eyes, he examined it with a