AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.
Our sight is not always to he depended upon, and a very odd experiment illustrative of the fact may (says an exchange) he performed by any one in possession of two hands and a sheet of paper. Take the paper —stiff writing paper will answer best—and roll it so as to form a tube about an inch in diameter. Apply the tube to the. right eye and look steadily through it at any convenient object, at the same time keep the left eye open. How place the left hand, with the palm towards you and the fingers pointing upwards, by the side of the paper tube and near its lower end. The strange sight will be seen
of a hole —a clearly defined hole—throng’ll the palm of the left hand. The illusion is a strange one, and a good example of the things we are liable to have played on us by our two-eyed vision.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 2, 8 April 1893, Page 4
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158AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 2, 8 April 1893, Page 4
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