 | Francis Bowen - 1842 - Liczba stron: 388
...him ; " for distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fond of the eye, which point remains invariably the same,...popular objections to his principles, which he applies sue24 cessfully to explaining all the observed phenomena of sight. Obvious facts show the necessity... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1842 - Liczba stron: 256
...seen. For distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye ; which point remains invariably the same whether the distance be longer or shorter." Such is the single reason he assigns to prove the invisibility of distance. On a careful search through... | |
 | 1842 - Liczba stron: 650
...seen, inasmuch as being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter;" an argument which, if it has any meaning and any force at all, must establish the impossibility of... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - Liczba stron: 548
...seen. For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye. Which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter. III. I find it also acknowledged, that the estimate we make of the distance of objects considerably... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - Liczba stron: 556
...seen. For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye. Which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter. IV. But when an object is placed at so near a distance, as that the interval between the eyes bears... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - Liczba stron: 542
...seen. For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye. Which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter. III. I find it also acknowledged, that the estimate we make of the distance of objects considerably... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1848 - Liczba stron: 584
...seen. For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter. " I find it also acknowledged, that the estimate vie make of the distance of objects considerably remote,... | |
 | 1850 - Liczba stron: 836
...seen. For distance being a line directed endiose, to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter." But granting that Sir David has proved his point,— that distance is represented by linear extension... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1851 - Liczba stron: 254
...seen. For distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye. Which point remains invariably the same whether the distance be longer or shorter." According to our first rule, we have to begin the examination of this argument by finding the conclusion... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - Liczba stron: 514
...seen. For distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye ; which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter." Take the following example. If a traveller on a dark night and a strange road sees before him a fixed... | |
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It is, I think, agreed by all that Distance, of itself and immediately, cannot be seen. For, distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance... 
