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" ... faithful representation of any near solid object, that is, to produce a painting which shall not be distinguished in the mind from the object itself. When the painting and the object are seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar... "
The Physiology of Vision - Page 192
by William Mackenzie - 1841 - 292 pages
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 128

Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1838 - 538 pages
...seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar pictures are projected on the retinae, in the case of the solid object the pictures are dissimilar...consequently between the perceptions formed in the mind ; the painting therefore cannot be confounded with the solid object. After looking over the-works of...
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The Annals of Electricity Magnetism and Chemistry and Guardian of ..., Volume 7

1841 - 542 pages
...seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar pictures are projected on the retinae, in the case of the solid object the pictures are dissimilar...consequently between the perceptions formed in the mind ; the painting therefore cannot be confounded with the solid object. After looking over the works of...
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A Review of Berkeley's Theory of Vision: Designed to Show the Unsoundness of ...

Samuel Bailey - 1842 - 256 pages
...eyes, in the case of the painting two similar pictures are projected on the retinae ; in the case of a solid object the pictures are dissimilar. There is,...sensation in the two cases, and consequently between the impressions formed in the mind : the painting, therefore, cannot be confounded with the solid object...
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The Senses and the Intellect

Alexander Bain - 1855 - 758 pages
...point of the retina, und passing throguh the centres of the lenses of the eye. / y / ! ' ' \ \ / / \ difference between the impressions on the organs of...consequently between the perceptions formed in the mind ; the painting, therefore, cannot be confounded with the solid object.' This dissimilarity of the pictures...
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The Senses and the Intellect

Alexander Bain - 1868 - 758 pages
...seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting, two similar pictures are projected on the retinae, in the case of the solid object, the pictures are dissimilar ; there is therefore an essential * The optic axis of the eye is the line of vieiblo direction for distinct vision, or a line proceeding...
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The Senses and the intellect

Alexander Bain - 1874 - 804 pages
...passing through the centres of the lenses of the eye. DISSIMILARITY OF PICTURES TO THE TWO EYES. 225 difference between the impressions on the organs of...cases, and consequently between the perceptions formed iu the mind ; the painting, therefore, cannot be confounded with the solid object.' This dissimilarity...
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The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone

Sir Charles Wheatstone - 1879 - 452 pages
...seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar pictures are projected on the retinae, in the case of the solid object the pictures are dissimilar;...consequently between the perceptions formed in the mind; the painting therefore cannot be confounded with the solid object. After looking over the works of...
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The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone

Sir Charles Wheatstone - 1879 - 454 pages
...two similar pictures are projected on the retinae^in the case of the solid object the pictures arc dissimilar; there is therefore an essential difference...consequently between the perceptions formed in the mind ; the painting therefore cannot be confounded with the solid object. After looking over the works of...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1852 - 1172 pages
...seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar pictures are projected on the retinae, in the case of the solid object the pictures are dissimilar...consequently between the perceptions formed in the mind; the painting therefore cannot be confounded with the solid object. After looking over the works of...
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Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

Jonathan Crary - 1992 - 190 pages
...are seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar objects are projected on the retina, in the case of the solid object the pictures are dissimilar;...consequently between the perceptions formed in the mind; the painting therefore cannot be confounded with the solid object.39 What he seeks, then, is a complete...
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