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Page 63
... distance , and nature of bodies , and represents them at once perceptibly . On the other hand , touch cer- tainly depends upon contact ; still its data are so varied and so trustworthy , that it is the most searching of all the senses ...
... distance , and nature of bodies , and represents them at once perceptibly . On the other hand , touch cer- tainly depends upon contact ; still its data are so varied and so trustworthy , that it is the most searching of all the senses ...
Page 66
... distance of objects outside us . For sensation , in seeing , supplies nothing more than a varied affection of the retina , exactly like the spectacle of a painter's palette 1 Diderot , in his " Lettre sur les Aveugles , " gives a ...
... distance of objects outside us . For sensation , in seeing , supplies nothing more than a varied affection of the retina , exactly like the spectacle of a painter's palette 1 Diderot , in his " Lettre sur les Aveugles , " gives a ...
Page 73
... distances before me , and com- plete the optic angle at it ; for then the rays emanating from the nearer object do not impinge upon symmetrically corresponding places in both retinas , wherefore my Under- standing attributes them to two ...
... distances before me , and com- plete the optic angle at it ; for then the rays emanating from the nearer object do not impinge upon symmetrically corresponding places in both retinas , wherefore my Under- standing attributes them to two ...
Page 76
... distance of objects from us : it is this precisely which constitutes that third dimension of which we have been speaking . Visual sensation , as we have said , gives us the direction in which objects lie , but not their distance from us ...
... distance of objects from us : it is this precisely which constitutes that third dimension of which we have been speaking . Visual sensation , as we have said , gives us the direction in which objects lie , but not their distance from us ...
Page 77
... distance : and conversely , its size , when its distance is known to us . Linear perspective is based upon the fact that the visual angle diminishes as the dis- tance increases , and its principles may here be easily de- duced . As our ...
... distance : and conversely , its size , when its distance is known to us . Linear perspective is based upon the fact that the visual angle diminishes as the dis- tance increases , and its principles may here be easily de- duced . As our ...
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