Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — Photographs from .the. Eyes. [ARTICLE]

Photographs from .the. Eyes.

We find in Nature, reproduced In substance from an English photographic periodical, a most extraordinary account of some experiments on images in the eyes made by Mr. W. Ingles Rogers. Mr. Rogers thinks he has proved, not only that real images of objects looked at are formed on the retina of tlie, eye, but that photographs of such images can be' made. Two such photographs, which lie claims to have taken himself, are described. In the first Instance he fixed Iris eyes intently for one'mimite, iu ordinary daylight, on a shilling. Then, drawing a yellow screen over the window to shut oi rlio actiniejight. he put a prepared photograph plate in the place of the shilling, and fastened liis eyes upon it, thinking all the while of tlie shilling. After forty-three minutes lie removed the plate and “developed" it. He says lie found an outline of the coin clearly visible the plate. He repeated the experiment with a postage-stamp and after twenty mintos' staring at a sensitized plate, found upon the latter, when It was developed, an image of the stamp. Ho took the trouble to have three witnesses present at one of his experiments. The light producing the alleged photographs is supposed to emanate from the image on the retina.