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" I did but intend my fancy a little while upon it ; for at first, if I shut my right eye, and looked with my left, the spectrum of the sun did not appear till I intended my fancy upon it ; but by repeating, this appeared every time more easily. And now,... "
Elements of Experimental and Natural Philosophy ... - Page 224
by Jabez Hogg - 1853 - 357 pages
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The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 17

1832 - 628 pages
...left eye as well as upon my right. For if I shut my right eye, and looked upon a book or the clouds with my left eye, I could see the spectrum of the...intended my fancy upon it ; but by repeating, this appeared every time more easily. And now in a few hours time I had brought my eyes to such a pass,...
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The Life of John Locke: With Extracts from His Correspondence, Journals, and ...

Lord Peter King King - 1829 - 426 pages
...left eye, as well as upon my right. For if I shut my right eye, and looked upon a book or the clouds with my left eye, I could see the spectrum of the...almost as plain as with my right eye, if I did but intende my fancy a little while upon it; for at first, if I shut my right eye, and looked with my left,...
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The Life of Sir Isaac Newton

David Brewster - 1831 - 328 pages
...left eye, as well as upon my right. For if I shut my right eye, or looked upon a book or the clouds with my left eye, I could see the spectrum of the...intended my fancy upon it ; but by repeating, this appeared every time more easily. And now, in a few hours' time, I had brought my eyes to such a pass,...
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The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 4

1831 - 460 pages
...left eye, as well as upon my right. For if I shut my right eye, or looked upon a book or the clouds with my left eye, I could see the spectrum of the...looked with my left, the spectrum of the sun did not * Though seen when, the left eye was opent it may still have been the spectrum on the right eye. —...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 45

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1831 - 570 pages
...LEFT eye, as well as upon my right ; for if I shut my right eye, and looked upon a book or the clouds with my left eye, I could see the spectrum of the...my fancy a little while upon it ; for at first, if 1 shut my right eye, and looked with my left, the the spectrum of the sun did not appear till I intended...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 45

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 572 pages
...my fancy a little while upon it ; for at first, if 1 shut my right eye, and looked with my left, the the spectrum of the sun did not appear till I intended my fancy upon it ; but by repeating this appeared every time more easily. And now, in a few hours time, I had brought my eyes to such a pass,...
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Letters on Natural Magic, Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart

David Brewster - 1834 - 370 pages
...left eye as well as upon my right. For if I shut my right eye, and looked upon a book or the clouds with my left eye, I could see the spectrum of the...intended my fancy upon it; but by repeating, this appeared every time more easily. And now in a few hours time I had brought my eyes to such a pass,...
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The Hindoos, Volume 2

Hindus - 1835 - 434 pages
...left eye as well as upon my right. For if I shut my right eye, and looked upon a book or the clouds with my left eye, I could see the spectrum of the...intended my fancy upon it; but, by repeating, this appeared every time more easily. And now, in a few hours' time, I had brought my eyes to such a pass,...
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The Hindoos, Volume 2

1835 - 430 pages
...left eye as well as upon my right. For if I shut my right eye, and looked upon a book or the clouds with my left eye, I could see the spectrum of the...intended my fancy upon it ; but, by repeating, this appeared every time more easily. And now, in a few hours' time, I had brought my eyes to such a pass,...
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Records of General Science, Volume 1

1835 - 502 pages
...left eye as well as upon my right ; for, if I shut my right eye, or looked upon a book, or the clouds with my left eye, I could see the spectrum of the sun almost as plain as with my right eye." * * * * " For some months after, the spectrum of the sun began to return as often as I began to meditate...
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