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  2. Optography - Wikipedia

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    A belief that the eye "recorded" the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a frequent plot device in fiction of the time, to the extent that police photographed the victims' eyes in several real-life murder investigations, in case the theory was true.

  3. Roddy McDowall - Wikipedia

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    He starred in the short lived TV spin-off series of Planet of the Apes (1974). During a guest appearance on The Carol Burnett Show, he came onstage in his Planet of the Apes makeup and performed a love duet with Burnett. [19] Asked about his career in a 1975 interview, McDowall said "I just hope to keep working and in interesting things." [20]

  4. Walter Keane - Wikipedia

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    Walter Stanley Keane (October 7, 1915 – December 27, 2000) was an American plagiarist who became famous in the 1960s [1] as the claimed painter of a series of widely reproduced paintings depicting vulnerable subjects with enormous eyes. [2]

  5. Post-mortem photography - Wikipedia

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    Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.

  6. Eye (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    It also features images (with descriptions) of some of the devices and characters presented in the novels, including Paul's personal ornithopter, an Ixian glowglobe, Princess Irulan, Duncan Idaho, and Reverend Mother Mohiam. "By the Book" "Seed Stock" "Murder Will In" "Passage for Piano" "Death of a City" "Frogs and Scientists"

  7. Eye - Wikipedia

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    The compound eyes of the arthropods are composed of many simple facets which, depending on anatomical detail, may give either a single pixelated image or multiple images per eye. Each sensor has its own lens and photosensitive cell(s). Some eyes have up to 28,000 such sensors arranged hexagonally, which can give a full 360° field of vision.

  8. John Taylor (oculist) - Wikipedia

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    Taylor was born in Norwich, possibly in 1703. [2] He was the son of a surgeon named John Taylor, who died in 1709. [2] He studied in London under the pioneering British surgeon William Cheselden at St Thomas' Hospital, [2] and by 1727 had produced a book, An Account of the Mechanism of the Eye, dedicated to Cheselden.

  9. The Final Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Idris pilots the Eye into unspace; Olli and Kit remain in real space to serve as their anchor. They are pursued by Architects. In unspace, the Eye attacks the Architect nursery over Idris’s objections about a potential genocide. Idris and Solace journey to the center of unspace and confront the Originators, the titular lords of uncreation.