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The Action of Light on the Retina: Translation and Commentary of Holmgren (1866) (2019)

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In 1866, Holmgren published an account of the physiological action of light on the retina. The article is taken as the origin of research on the electroretinogram, although the term was not introduced until much later. We present a translation of the article into English and provide a commentary on its reception and significance.

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Authors & Contributors
Hentschel, Klaus
Ursin, Frank
Ning Yan Zhu
D'Agostino, Salvo
Rubeis, Giovanni
Zonta, Mauro
Journals
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
History and Philosophy of Logic
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Publishers
Pavia University Press
Lunds Universitet (Sweden)
World Scientific
Walter de Gruyter
Oxford University Press
IESNA
Concepts
Vision
Light
Physics
Optics
Translations
Commentaries
People
Holmgren, Frithiof
Reichart, Wolfgang
Lambert, Johann Heinrich
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
Hobbes, Thomas
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Time Periods
19th century
Medieval
Ancient
20th century
17th century
16th century
Places
Sweden
Europe
Middle and Near East
Italy
Greece
Germany
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