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" ... (by which the rays cannot be brought into a focus upon the retina) they can discern in no other manner, than a sound eye can through a glass of broken jelly... "
A Compleat System of Opticks in Four Books, Viz. A Popular, a Mathematical ... - Page 43
by Robert Smith - 1738 - 171 pages
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The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the End of the Year 1700 ...

Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1734 - 552 pages
...Glafs of/fa, ana was broken Jelly, where agréât Variety of Surfaces fo differently refract ™ ™/"w the Light, that the feveral diftinct Pencils of Rays cannot be collected "^ап tf by the Eye into their proper Foci; wherefore the Shape ot an Object ¿t^tyMrW. in fuch a...
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The Anatomy of the Human Body

William Cheselden - 1740 - 438 pages
...made, being let in obliquely through the aqueous humour, or the anterior furface of the cryftaline, by which the rays Cannot be brought into a focus upon...fhape of an object in fuch a cafe cannot be at all difcerned, though the colour may ; And thus it was with this young gentleman, who though he knew thefe...
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Essays on Philosophical Subjects

Adam Smith - 1795 - 402 pages
...great variety of fur" faces fo differently refract the light, that the feveral diftinct pen** cils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their...fhape of an object in fuch a cafe cannot be at all " difcerned, though the colour may : and thus it was with this .** young gentleman, who, though he...
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The Works of Adam Smith: Considerations concerning the formation of ...

Adam Smith - 1811 - 662 pages
...of furfaces fo differently refract the light, " that the feveral diflinct pencils of rays can" not be collected by the eye into their proper " foci ;...fhape of an object in " fuch a cafe cannot be at all difcerned, *« though the colour may : and thus it was *' with this young gentleman, who, though «*...
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The Works of Adam Smith: Considerations concerning the formation of ...

Adam Smith - 1811 - 602 pages
...of furfaces fo differently refract the light, " that the feveral dif liner, pencils of rays can" not be collected by the eye into their proper " foci;...fhape of an object in. '* fuch a cafe cannot be at all difcerned, " though the colour may : and thus it was ** with this young gentleman, who, though " he...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 3

John Walker - 1811 - 574 pages
...jelly, where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci ; wherefore, the shape of an object in such a case cannot at all be discerned, though the colour may. And thus it was...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian

Youth's instructor - 1822 - 488 pages
...jelly, where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci ; wherefore, the shape of an object in such a case cannot at all bediscerncd, though the colour may. And thus it was...
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A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind, Part First, Volume 1

Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 pages
...jelly, where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci; wherefore the shape of an object in such a case cannot be at all discerned, though the colour may. And thus it was...
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Über die Bildung der Gesichtsvorstellungen aus den Gesichtsempfindungen

G. Heermann - 1835 - 274 pages
...great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of ray cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci, wherefore the shape of an object in such a case cannot be at all discerned, though the colour may. And thus ii was...
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An appendix to the fourth edition of the Anatomy of the human body. To which ...

William Cheselden - 1839 - 32 pages
...jelly, where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci ; wherefore the shape of an object in such a case cannot be at all discerned, though the colour may. And thus it was...
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