circumgyration

A great deal of shouting, firing of guns, and circumgyration by the men who had come from the war just outside the stockade of Nkisiwa (which is surrounded by a hedge of dark euphorbia and stands in a level hollow) was going on as we descended the gentle slope towards it.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

But this rolling of the eyes, after revolving till we become vertiginous, cannot cause the apparent circumgyration of objects, in a direction contrary to that in which we have been revolving, for the following reasons.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

The ingenious and learned M. Sauvage has mentioned other theories to account for the apparent circumgyration of objects in vertiginous people.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

To these movements of the eyes, of which he supposes the observer to be inconscious, Dr. Wells ascribes the apparent circumgyration of objects on ceasing to revolve.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

_ In the vertigo from circumgyration the irritative motions of vision are increased; which is evinced from the pleasure that children receive on being rocked in a cradle, or by swinging on a rope.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

The circumgyration began at a considerable distance from the tree in the midst, and the intervening space was radiant with a beam of light, which caused the trees in the circle to shine with a graduated splendor that was continued from the first to the last.

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

a blind person turns round, as mentioned above; yet as this circumgyration of objects is an hallucination or deception of the sense of sight, we are to look for the cause of our appearing to move forward, when we stop with our eyes closed after gyration, to some affection of this sense.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766