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Visual disturbances

history of science
Katherine Marshall
27 January 2026
3 mins

Katharine Marshall looks at the work of physician Hubert Airy on migraine auras, or scintillating scotomas.

Spectral lights

history of science
Keith Moore
15 April 2019
4 mins

Keith Moore dips into the diaries of Sir John Herschel FRS, and finds the great man troubled by visual migraines and the turbulent Charles Babbage, but soothed by his granddaughter's Beethoven recitals.