 | Helge Svare - 2006 - Liczba stron: 352
...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. A ray of light will always hit the retina at one point only, Berkeley argues, and whether the ray originates... | |
 | Mary A. Peterson, Barbara Gillam, H. A. Sedgwick - 2007 - Liczba stron: 656
...direct stimuli (" . . . 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" [6, p. 13]), an argument which apparently makes the exceedingly dubious assumptions (20, p. 85; 26,... | |
 | 1838 - Liczba stron: 428
...him ; " 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,...refutes the popular objections to his principles, and applies them successfully to explaining all the observed phenomena of sight. Obvious facts show... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - Liczba stron: 660
...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. fleet on them. How, as it were in an escape our observations. How freinstant, do our minds with one... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1864 - Liczba stron: 658
...this : " 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." * This reason must be admitted to be valid, so far as relative distance is concerned, that is, the... | |
 | James Ward - 1933 - Liczba stron: 504
...seen. For distance, being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point on the fund of the eye — which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter1." That is to say, till we know the distance we cannot judge the size: distance is in the last... | |
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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... 
