Show scientific REASON GIVEN why thy the eyes of a painted portrait follow the observer tons curious discovery was that by adding to each pair of eyes a nose directed to the right or the lf left t the eyes loze lose their front direction and look to the right or left according 0 io o the direction of the nose by means of a fla flap ap representing the lower features in a different position as dr wollaston remarks a lost look of devout abstraction in an uplifted countenance of inquisitive in the leer ot of a younger face turned downward and obliquely toward the opposite side As by changing the direction of the lower features we change the direction of the eyes says notes otes and Que queries riez so PO by changing cur position the eye of the portrait apparently follows us if a vertical line be drawn through the tip of the nose and half way nay between tb the e eyes there will be the same breadth of head of chck cheek of chin and of neck on each side of this middle line and each iris will be in the middle of the whole eye if we now move to one side the apparent horizontal breadth of every part of the head and face will be diminished mini hed shed but the parts on each side of the middle line will be diminished equally and at any pasit position on however oblique there will be the same breadth of face on each side of the middle line and the iris will be in the center of the whole of the eyeball so that being on a flat surface the iris will be seen in front of the picture or obliquely |