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optic disk

n. Anatomy
See blind spot.
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Noun1.optic disk - the point where the optic nerve enters the retinaoptic disk - the point where the optic nerve enters the retina; not sensitive to light
optic disc, blind spot
retina - the innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve
point - the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
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El filosofo natural Frances Edme Mariotte (1620-1684) introdujo en el siglo XVII un aparato compuesto de un marco de madera con una serie de pendulos alineados en un mismo plano (Mariotte, 1717).
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Hacia 1680, Edme Mariotte reproducia el supuesto experimentum crucis y encontraba resultados que le parecian contradecir e incluso refutar a Newton: el haz violeta que lograba aislar arrojaba, tras la segunda refraccion, una imagen en la que se mezclaban los colores rojo y amarillo.
Hacia una filosofia de la experimentacion *
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