HAIDINGER'S BRUSH

Haidinger's brush: translation

Also known asHaidinger brushes, Haidinger's brushes, andHaidinger's polarization brushes. All four eponyms refer to the Austrian physicist, geologist, and mineralogist Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795-1871), who has been credited with being the first to describe the concomitant phenomenon in 1844. Haidinger's brush is generally classified as an *entoptic phenomenon. It consists of a yellowish horizontal

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