[visionlist] Roman acuity test?

[Dr. Jeffrey Anshel]

Denis,

You could always just start with: "Legend has it that...."; that 
would likely get you off the hook for any deficiency in accuracy.

Jeff

At 09:35 AM 8/4/2007, Denis Pelli wrote:

>Reading various posting found through Google, I think the following is
>true:
>
>"The Roman legions required each candidate for Centurion Guard to
>resolve a pair of stars, Alcor and Mizar in Ursa Major, 12 min arc
>apart."
>
>However, I would like to publish this in an article. Can anyone specify
>a reference that I can cite for this fact?
>
>Denis Pelli
>Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
>New York University
>http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/
>
>p.s.
>Were Centurion Guards lookouts?
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