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Cross-section diagram of a human eye

Your Guide to How the Eye Sees

Source: WebMD

Like anything you have with you all the time, you might take your eyes for granted. But how the eye translates the light falling onto an object into an image your brain can make sense of is pretty amazing. Here’s an overview.

This entry was posted in How We See Things and tagged Health & Medicine, Science & Nature on December 1, 2019 by admin.

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