 | Edward Bancroft - 1814 - 468 pages
...therefore, " that the variety of colours depends upon the composition of light." That " colours, in an object, are nothing but a disposition to reflect this...into the sensorium; and in the sensorium, they are sensations of those motions, under the forms of colours." That "colours may be produced by composition,... | |
 | 1823 - 886 pages
...nothing but a disposition to reflect this or that sort of rays more copiously than the ¿rest : in rays they are nothing but their dispositions to propagate...into the sensorium ; and in the sensorium they are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours. See CHROMAI »es. " By the mathematical proposition... | |
 | 1823
...a disposition to reflect this or that soil of rays more copiously than the rest; in the rays there are nothing but their dispositions to propagate this or that motion into the sensor ¡um f and in the sentorium they are sensations of tho<e motions under the forms of colours.... | |
 | 1833 - 632 pages
...that sort of rays more copiously than the rest: in the rays there are nothing but their disposition to propagate this or that motion into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of those motions, under the form of colours."* Q. As colour is not a real quality of the... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester - 1862 - 548 pages
...his Optics, in these words : " From all which it is manifest that if the sun-s light consisted of hut one sort of rays, there would be but one colour in...sensations of those motions under the form of colours." another part of the same letter he says : " These things being so, it can be no longer disputed whether... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 508 pages
...motion propagated from the object, and in the sensorium 'tis a sense of that motion under the form of a sound ; so colours in the object are nothing but a...into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours. APPENDIX B. BURNING MAGNESIUM WIRE, A SOURCE... | |
 | sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1869 - 396 pages
...motion propagated from the object, and in the sensorium 'tis a sense of that motion under the form of a sound ; so colours in the object are nothing but a...into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours. APPENDIX B. BURN1NG MAGNES1TM AVIKK, A SOURCE... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 542 pages
...motion propagated from the object, and in the sensorium 'tis a sense of that motion under the form of a sound; so colours in the object are nothing but a...this or that motion into the sensorium, and in the scnsorium they are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours. APPENDIX B. BURNING MAGNESIUM... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1893 - 732 pages
...motion propagated from the object, and in the sensorium 't is a sense of that motion under the form of a sound ; so colours in the object are nothing but a...into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of these motions under the form of colours." These memorable investigations of Newton's... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 762 pages
...motion, and in the Air nothing but that Motion propagated from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a Sense of that Motion under the form of Sound ; so...into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the forms of Colours."1 Again, with greater definiteness, Newton... | |
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