[ExI] ???
Darin Sunley
dsunley at gmail.com
Mon Jun 10 18:03:18 UTC 2019
It's an ancient Greek theory that, because it was advocated by Galen (2nd
century) retained a lot of prestige in Europe through the Dark Ages.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory_(vision)
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019, 11:53 AM Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019, 1:43 PM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have never in my life run across such a crazy idea,but apparently it is
>> fairly widespread.
>>
>> The idea is that vision is accomplished by the eyes sending some sort of
>> rays out to world and perhaps reflecting back to the eyes to be seen.
>>
>> Have any of you run across this? I have heard of some crazy things in my
>> life, but this is now #1.
>>
>
> I imagine it comes from early drawings of light going into the optics of
> an eye...
>
> I'm not sure how the leap is made to get to the eye sending out a beam
> though.
>
> Maybe it's like the red laser eyes of a terminator or a borg? Or maybe
> those ideas echo the earlier notion that the eye sends a signal... like
> radar?
>
> It's an interesting question
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