Although Purkinje observed the eponymous phenomenon at dawn, it is identical to what happens in the dark-adapting eye. It is shown that most modern definitions of the phenomenon couch it in terms of dark adaptation and that the author's definition of it in similar terms is justified in spite of Brožek's objection.
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