 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - Liczba stron: 792
...hover o'er and shroud The wanton sailors with a feathered cloud. Prior. When a man in the dark presses either corner of his eye with his finger, and turns his eye away from his finger, he will see a circle of colors like those in the featheri of a peacock's tail. Newttm. A feathtrdrwer had the... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - 1829 - Liczba stron: 268
...Sensation depends upon oscillatory movements in the fibrils of nerves. " When a man in the dark presses either corner of his eye with his finger, and turns his eye away from his finger, he 'will see a circle of colours like those in the feathers of a peacock's tail. If the eye and the finger remain... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - Liczba stron: 822
...hover o'er and shroud The wanton sailors with a feathered ¿load. Prior. When a man in the dark presses either corner of his eye with his finger, and turns his eye away from hts finger, he will sec a circle of colors like those in tbe/ortA/rrof a peacock's tail. Newton. A... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - Liczba stron: 462
...and shroud The wanton sailors with * feathered cloud. Prior. When a man in the dark presses cither corner of his eye with his finger, and turns his eye away from hi* finger, he will see a circle of colors like those in the featheri of a peacock's tail. Newton.... | |
 | John Fearn - 1830 - Liczba stron: 366
...Newton, at the end of his OPTICS, is of the following tenor : — " When a man " in the dark presses either corner of his eye " with his finger, and turns his eye away from his " finger, he will see a circle of colours like those " in the feather of a peacock's tail. Do not these " colours arise... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1832 - Liczba stron: 634
...by Sir Isaac Newton, in the sixteenth of his optical queries : — ' When a man in the dark presses either corner of his eye with his finger, and turns his eye away from his finger, he will see a circle of colours like those in the feather of a peacock's tall. If the eye and the finger remain... | |
 | David Hartley - 1834 - Liczba stron: 650
...referred the appearance mentioned by Sir Isaac Newton, Opt. Qu. 16. viz. " When a man in the dark presses either corner of his eye with his finger, and turns his eye away from his finger, he will see a circle of colours like those in the feather of a peacock's tail. And this appearance continues... | |
 | Anonymous - 1832 - Liczba stron: 612
...by Sir Isaac Newton, in the sixteenth of his optical queries : — ' When a roan in the dark presses either corner of his eye with his finger, and turns his eye away from his finger, he will see a circle of colours like those in the feather• of a peacock's tail. If the eye and the finger... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - Liczba stron: 604
...into the brain, cause the sense of seeing ? " And again (Query 16th), " When a man in the dark presses either corner of his eye with his finger, and turns his eye away from his finger, he will see a circle of colours, like those in the feather of a peacock's tail. If the eye and the finger remain... | |
 | 1832 - Liczba stron: 516
...Newton describes the fact, and reasons upon it in die following manner: " When a man in the dark presses either corner of his eye with his finger, and turns his eye away from his finger, he will see a circle of colours like those in the feather of a peacock's tail. If the eye and the finger remain... | |
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When a man in the dark presses either corner of his eye with his finger, and turns his eye away from his finger, he will see a circle of colours, like those in the feather of a peacock's tail. If the eye and the finger remain quiet, these colours vanish... 
