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some bloodthirsty stuff right after the episode. For centuries, people wondered if it might be

possible at the moment of death for the human eye to retain its final vision.

The retina, like a camera, capturing and holding the last image that person would ever see.

The whole notion began in the 1600s when a Jesuit brother dissecting a frog announced that he'd observed a faint image

on the dead amphibians retina. No one argued science back then had a lot of room for what

sound to us like outlandish theories. But then photography was invented and suddenly that-dead Jesuit story about frog retinas

sounded a whole lot more promising.

If an image taken by a camera could be fixed on a piece of glass or paper, then why should

the human retina not work in a similar way?

Just as a camera had a lens, so did the eye.

It didn't seem all that preposterous

to suggest that the human eye might be able

to permanently capture an image too.

And if that was the case,

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