EXCAVATING THE FUTURE:
AN ARCHEOLOGY AND FUTURE OF MOVING PICTURES



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Frontispiece Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869) after a frontispiece illustration in Purkinje's Opera Omnia volume 1. Figure Legends Portrait of Purkinje as a young man (after an illustration in Psotnickova, 1955). Purkinje images. The reflections of a candle flame from the structures of the eye, from Purkinje (1823b). Candlelight reflection from anterior and posterior cornea and from the anterior and posterior portion of the lens.
   
   
Candlelight reflection from the anterior surface of the cornea and the posterior surface of the lens where the image is reversed.   Candlelight reflection from the anterior surface of the cornea and from the anterior surface of the lens where the reflection is erect.   Semicircular umbrula [weak shadow] which projects from the iris to the anterior surface of the lens.   A light from the substantia albuginea to the center of the anterior chamber" (John, 1959, p. 61).
             
     
Purkinje cells. Purkinje's (1837a) diagram of cells in the cerebellum.   Portrait of Purkinje after an illustration in Psotnickova (1955).   Portrait of Purkinje after a frontispiece illustration in Opera omnia volume 3   Notice announcing the defense of Purkinje's doctoral dissertation and the title page of the unpublished dissertation (from Psotnickova, 1955). 2n
             
     
Title page of Opera omnia volume 2.   Portrait of Purkinje after an illustration kindly supplied by J. Hoskovec.   Portrait of Purkinje in 1850 after an illustration in Purkinje's Opera omnia volume 6.   The plate of figures appended to Purkinje (1819/1823).
             
     
Phorolyt pictures to show the action of the heart and rotations of the head.   Concentric circles and ray figures as illustrated in Purkinje (1825).   Portrait of Purkinje after a frontispiece illustration in Psotnickova (1955).   Title pages of the first and second editions of Purkinje's small volume on subjective visual phenomena.
             
     
Light and shadow figures. (Figures 1-4)   Pressure figures. (Figures 5-14)   Galvanic light phenomena. (Figures 15-16)   Nebulous stripes. (Figures 17-l9)
             
     
The blind spot in binocular vision.
(Figure 20)
  The luminous circles around the optic disc.
(Figures 21-22)
  The Purkinje tree. The pattern of the retinal blood vessels.
(Figures 23-24)
  Visibility of blood circulation in the eye.
(Figure 25)
             
     
Curvilinear radiations.
(Figure 26)
  Pulsating figure.
(Figure 27)
  Flying gnats.
(Figure 28)
  Firey rings.
(Figure 29)
             
     
Portrait of Purkinje in 1862 after an illustration in Hykes (1936).   Nine patterns of fingerprints, from Purkinje (1823b).   Title page of Purkinje (1825).   A diagram from La Hire ( 1694) which could represent the large vessels of the Purkinje tree.
             
         
A pattern of radiating lines in which apparent motion of scintillating dots can be seen, particularly in the white annuli.   Purkinje in repose in 1869, after a photograph in Vavrousek et al (1937).