Welcome To Edinburgh

Young wanted to extend his medical knowledge at a University, considering having a degree was starting to increase your job opportunities. He didnt want to go to cambridge or Oxford so he decided to mount a horse and travel to Edinburgh. The school was established in 1726 by a Mr. Alexander Monro, and it was passed down from alexander to alexander over the years being in Monro family for 120 years. Young got there on October 20 where he was just one of the 17,000 students to attend the school. The school was cheap, they didnt care which religion you were, and the lectures were in English instead of Latin. You got to chose which classes you wanted and you were only responsible for paying for them. While Young was there he had been studying the lens in eyes. He had writen a paper entitled "Observations on Vision." but due to some personal issues as well as someone else already talking about the same topic he hadnt published it. That someone was a Mr. Hunter but was talked about by Mr. Homes, even though Thomas's ideas were better and correct compared to Mr. hunter's he still backed away from publishing until later years. (will be discussed in a later post) It was just one step to showing Thomas Young's Brillance

This is a picture of a human eye, which was observed and reported about in Mr.Youngs " Observations on Vision"