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    Haidinger's brush, more commonly known as Haidinger's brushes is an image produced by the eye, an entoptic phenomenon, first described by Austrian physicist...
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  • observation plane.[further explanation needed] Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger Haidinger's brush Ghatak, Ajoy (2005). Optics (3rd ed.). New Delhi: Tata McGraw...
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    physical arrangement in the macula lutea is believed to be the cause of Haidinger's brush, an entoptic phenomenon that enables perception of polarizing light...
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  • the dots of light appear slightly elongated with dark tails.[4][5] Haidinger's brush is a very subtle bowtie or hourglass shaped pattern that is seen when...
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  • agents Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder – Medical condition Haidinger's brush – Visible effect of polarised light Prisoner's cinema – Visual phenomenon...
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    space or through a vacuum. Diffraction of light through the eyelashes Haidinger's brush Monocular diplopia (or polyplopia) from reflections at boundaries...
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  • appearance) gradient index lens gradient index optics guided-wave optics Haidinger's brush halo (optical phenomenon) haze (optics) Helium–neon laser history...
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    von Haidinger (or Wilhelm von Haidinger, or most often Wilhelm Haidinger) (5 February 1795 – 19 March 1871) was an Austrian mineralogist. Haidinger's father...
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    suggest is that Iceland spar crystals were used in combination with Haidinger's brush. If so, Vikings could have used them in the northern latitudes where...
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    a very faint pattern near the center of the visual field, called Haidinger's brush. This pattern is very difficult to see, but with practice one can...
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  • to roughly detect large areas of polarization by an effect called Haidinger's brush; however, this is considered an entoptic phenomenon rather than a...
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  • reveal a yellow entoptic pattern on the fovea of the eye, probably Haidinger's brush. The recovery of an Iceland spar sunstone from a ship of the Elizabethan...
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    and birefringent to blue light. This effect is visible through the Haidinger's brush when the fovea is pointed to a polarized light source. The combined...
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  • element naming controversy) Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist - Haidinger's brush Edwin Hall, American physicist – Hall effect Monty...
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  • astronauts 7.38 Honeybees, desert ants, and polarized light 7.39 Haidinger's brush 7.40 Colors of shadows 7.41 Safety of sunglasses 7.42 Fish lens 7...
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  • shapes (Haidinger's brushes), one blue, the other yellow, when the light is polarized, discovered by Austrian physicist Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger in 1844...
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  • Crossroads, W. H. Wise via Biodiversity Heritage Library 1955: "Haidinger's Brushes and Circularly Polarized Light", Journal of the Optical Society of...
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    – sagebrush: Artemisia californica – California sagebrush, coastal sage brush Arctostaphylos species – manzanitas: Arctostaphylos glauca – bigberry manzanita...
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    Difficulties, Melbourne: Thomas Verga. Olsen, Penny (2022), Feather and Brush: A History of Australian Bird Art, North Clayton: CSIRO publishing. ISBN 978-1-4863-1417-1...
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    Brückmann (1697–1753) Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737–1827) George Jarvis Brush (1831–1912) Arthur Francis Buddington (1890–1980) Martin Julian Buerger...
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  • (elements, sulfides, oxides, silicates, and so on). Dana, James Dwight; Brush, George Jarvis (1868). A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive mineralogy, comprising...
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