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The small space to which da Vinci alludes is, of course, the eye, a brilliantly engineered apparatus that can capture the images of the universe and whisk them along via the optic nerve to be interpreted in the visual cortex.

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Taylor, R.B. (2013). The Eye. In: Diagnostic Principles and Applications. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1111-6_4

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