Descartes illustration of the co-ordination of

Descartes illustration of the co-ordination of the senses. Visual stimulus travelling from the eye to the pineal gland, H, stops attention being given to olfactory stimulus. From Rene Descartes Opera Philosophica, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1692. Originally published in his Tractatus de homine, Paris, 1664. Woodcut

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