 | Phrenology - 1841 - 436 pages
...after examining these bodies with great attention, he said that he saw a quadrangular and a circular figure ; and, after further consideration, described...fingers, as if he really touched the objects. Subsequent experience shewed that he could not discriminate a solid body from a plane surface of a similar shape.... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Meteorology - 1841 - 404 pages
...were not drawings ; but that he had not been able to form from them the idea of a square and a disc, until he perceived a sensation of what he saw in the...his fingers, as if he really touched the objects. When I gave the three bodies (the sphere, cube, and pyramid) into his hand, he was much surprised that... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Meteorology - 1841 - 478 pages
...were not drawings; but that he had not been able to form from them the idea of a square and a disc, until he perceived a sensation of what he saw in the...his fingers, as if he really touched the objects. When I gave the three bodies (the sphere, cube, and pyramid) into his hand, he was much surprised that... | |
 | 1840 - 832 pages
...after examining these bodies with great attention, he said that he saw a quadrangular and a circular figure ; and, . after further consideration, described...the other a disc, but confessed that he had not been atle to form these ideas until he perceived a sensation of what he saw in the points of his fingers,... | |
 | William Baly, William Senhouse Kirkes - Animal locomotion - 1848 - 170 pages
...perceive that they were not drawings, yet he could not form from them the idea of a square and a disc, " until he perceived a sensation of what he saw in the...his fingers, as if he really touched the objects." When he took the sphere, cube, and pyramid, into his hand, he was astonished that he had not recognized... | |
 | Thomas Kingsmill Abbott - Perception - 1864 - 204 pages
...that they had three dimensions), but had not been able to form from them the idea of a square and disc until he perceived a sensation of what he saw in the...his fingers, as if he really touched the objects. The reader will not fail to note this striking example of the law of Reproduction, insisted on in p.... | |
 | John William Draper - Physiology - 1865 - 684 pages
...perceive that they were not drawings, yet he could not form from them the idea of a square and a disk until he perceived a sensation of what he saw in the...of his fingers as if he really touched the objects. When he took the sphere, cube, and pyramid into his hand, he was astonished that he had not recognized... | |
 | James McCosh - 1866 - 424 pages
...not drawings ; but that he had not been " able to form from them the idea of a square and a " disc until he perceived a sensation of what he saw in "...his fingers, as if he really touched the " objects. When I gave the three bodies (the sphere, " cube, and pyramid) into his hand, he was much sur" prised... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1867 - 664 pages
..." not drawings ; but that he had not been able to form from them the " idea of a square and a disc, until he perceived a sensation of what he saw " in...points of his fingers, as if he really touched the object." (A very significant fact, both psychologically and physiologically.) " When I " gave the three... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 904 pages
...circumstance that Franz's youth could not form, from what he saw, " the idea of a square and disc, until he perceived a sensation of what he saw in the...points of his fingers, as if he really touched the object ;" for it was thus he identified the perceptions which he was now receiving with those which... | |
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... had not been able to form from them the idea of a square and a disc, until he perceived a sensation of what he saw in the points of his fingers, as if he really touched the objects. 
