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IN reference to the letter of Mr. Percival in your issue of November 22 (p. 82), concerning acuteness of vision, it is interesting to determine the power of resolution of the eye considered as a lens merely, according to the well-known rule,
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TWYMAN, F. The Optics of Acuteness of Sight. Nature 63, 157 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/063157c0
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