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ALTHOUGH most people are familiar with the appearances which surround, or perhaps I should say form, the image on the retina of a luminous point, their origin, I believe, is not so generally known, and it is not uncommon to hear them ascribed to reflection from the eyelids and eyelashes, which in reality plays no part in their production. There are three distinct phenomena which go to make up the appearance of a luminous point, but they are not generally all visible at once. I will describe them for convenience of reference as phenomena A, B, and C.
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MALLOCK, A. Visual Phenomena. Nature 14, 350–351 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014350b0
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