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IN reference to your Belfast correspondents' interesting experiments with the artificial spectrum, which were long ago included in my own experiments, a little reflection will show that when the speed of rotation is increased, we do not retain unaltered the resultant proportion of stimulus and anti-stimulus on the retina. With a slow rotation we have simultaneously on the retina a persistence image of the lines and a real image of the white card. When the speed is greater, we get simultaneously these two, and in addition a persistence image of the white card. Hence, according to my theory, the rise in scale with increased rapidity of revolution.
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BENHAM, C. The Artificial Spectrum Top. Nature 51, 321 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051321b0
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