Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 11. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 495
... sensation of which every man is confcious at the time of vifion ; and this fenfation feems to us to be that which in this cafe fuggefts the idea of greater or lefs distance to the mind . Not that there is any natural or necessary ...
... sensation of which every man is confcious at the time of vifion ; and this fenfation feems to us to be that which in this cafe fuggefts the idea of greater or lefs distance to the mind . Not that there is any natural or necessary ...
Page 496
... sensation by which the magnitude is suggested . It is indeed cuftomary with writers on optics to diftinguifh between tangible and visible mag- nitude , as if any kind of magnitude were the immediate object of vision : but this is not fo ...
... sensation by which the magnitude is suggested . It is indeed cuftomary with writers on optics to diftinguifh between tangible and visible mag- nitude , as if any kind of magnitude were the immediate object of vision : but this is not fo ...
Page 546
... sensation vanish at once . 372 The idea of colour and the notion rable . From this fact , which a less acute man would think a proof that the refiftance was not occafioned by the immediate agency of the Supreme Being , but by the of ...
... sensation vanish at once . 372 The idea of colour and the notion rable . From this fact , which a less acute man would think a proof that the refiftance was not occafioned by the immediate agency of the Supreme Being , but by the of ...
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