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IN my letter to Prof. Lodge, published in your last issue, I notice a printer's error, which I think should be corrected, as it gives an entirely wrong meaning to the sentence in which it occurs. As it stands it reads as follows: “The energy thus lost by the tissues was then suppressed from without by the vibrating fingers,” whereas I said the energy was supplied from without by the fingers, the idea being that the shaking back of the eyes to their normal state of rest, evinced by the sensation of darkness, is perfectly analogous to the tapping back of Prof. Lodge's “Coherer” to its normal position, evinced by the return of the galvanometer needle to zero.
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OBACH, E. Electrical Theory of Vision. Nature 50, 199 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050199b0
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