'Tis manifest by Experiments, that the ordinary Power of Man's Eye extends no farther than perceiving what subtends an Angle of about a Minute, or something less. But when an Eye is armed with a Telescope, it may discern an Angle less than a Second.


Dioptrica Nova (p. 243), Printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1692

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'Tis manifest by Experiments, that the ordinary Power of Man's Eye extends no farther than perceiving what subtends an Angle of about a Minute, or...

'Tis manifest by Experiments, that the ordinary Power of Man's Eye extends no farther than perceiving what subtends an Angle of about a Minute, or...

'Tis manifest by Experiments, that the ordinary Power of Man's Eye extends no farther than perceiving what subtends an Angle of about a Minute, or...

'Tis manifest by Experiments, that the ordinary Power of Man's Eye extends no farther than perceiving what subtends an Angle of about a Minute, or...