<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">The ancients held it. It’s not so crazy unless one already has a modern view of these things. Kind of like why do you believe the brain is the center of cognition? How would one know that without a lot of evidence that earlier peoples simply didn’t have?<div><br></div><div>See <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory_(vision)">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory_(vision)</a><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jun 10, 2019, at 10:39 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I have never in my life run across such a crazy idea,but apparently it is fairly widespread.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Have any of you run across this? I have heard of some crazy things in my life, but this is now #1.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div>
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