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" The sense of rotation is, like other senses, subject to illusions, rotation being perceived where none takes place. Vertigo or giddiness is a phenomenon of this kind. When, in the experiments just mentioned, rotation at a uniform angular rate is kept... "
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Page 255
1875
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Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, Volume 8

1874 - 478 pages
...the axis. It was also found that considerable differences of accuracy exist in different individuals. The sense of rotation is, like other senses, subject...appears to the experimenter to be gradually diminishing, and to cease altogether after a time, varying with the position of the head, and different with different...
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Grundlinien der Lehre von den Bewegungsempfindungen

Ernst Mach - 1875 - 152 pages
...the axis. It was also found that considerable differences of accuracy exist in diiferent individuals. The sense of rotation is, like other senses, subject...appears to the experimenter to be gradually diminishing, and to cease altogether after a time, varying with the position of the head , and diiferent with different...
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Transactions of the Clinical Society of London, Volume 9

Clinical Society of London - 1876 - 264 pages
...possible to make the vertical axis of rotation coincide with any straight line through the head. ' If rotation at a uniform angular rate is kept up for...appears to the experimenter to be gradually diminishing, and to cease altogether after a time. If the rotation be then stopped, the sensation of rotation about...
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Transactions of the Clinical Society of London. ...

Clinical Society of London - 1876 - 290 pages
...1874. to make the vertical axis of rotation coincide with any straight line through the head. ' If rotation at a uniform angular rate is kept up for some time, the rate appears to the experimenter to he gradually diminishing, and to cease altogether after a time. If the rotation be then stopped, the...
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The Relations of Mind and Brain

Henry Calderwood - 1879 - 482 pages
...being attached to the bony canal. Confirmation of the theory is found, however, in the fact that " when rotation at a uniform angular rate is kept up for...appears to the experimenter to be gradually diminishing, and to cease altogether after a time." 2 The question here arises, how can we in this way be aware...
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Fundamentals of the Theory of Movement Perception by Dr. E. Mach

Laurence R. Young, Volker Henn, Hansjorg Scherberger - 2001 - 378 pages
...the axis. It was also found that considerable differences of accuracy exist in different individuals. The sense of rotation is, like other senses, subject...appears to the experimenter to be gradually diminishing, and to cease altogether after a time, varying with the position of the head, and different with different...
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