 | 1803 - 572 pages
...the ox. Hence it would appear, that the difference between the density of the aqueous and vitreous humour and that of the crystalline, is in the inverse...that it is in some degree designed for the purpose of promoting distinct vision.' Experiments and Observations on the various Alloys, en ttie specific Gravity,... | |
 | 1803 - 922 pages
...of the ox. Hence it would appear that the difference between the density of the aqueous and vitreous humour and that of the crystalline, is in the inverse...that it is in some degree designed for the purpose of promoting distinct vision. In taking the specific gravity of the aqueous and vitreous humours, no particular... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1803 - 606 pages
...the ox. Hence it would appear, that the difference between the density of the aqueous and vitreous humour and that of the crystalline, is in the inverse...that it is in some degree designed for the purpose of promoting distinct vision. In taking the specific gravity of the aqueous and vitreous humours, no particular... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1804 - 620 pages
...the ox.' Hence it would appear, that the difference between the density of the aqueous and vitreous humour and that of the crystalline, is in the inverse...that it is in some degree designed for the purpose of promoting distinct vision.' p. 198. The cataract is owing, in our author's opinion, to the coagulation... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1817 - 716 pages
...probable conclusion, that the difference between the density of the aqueous and crystalline humours, and that of the crystalline, is in the inverse ratio...the eye, taken from the cornea to the optic nerve. The crystalline of the ox weighed 30 grains. When the whole of it was pared away except the six grains... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1843 - 720 pages
...concluded that the difference between the density of the aqueous and vitreous humours and of the lens, is in the inverse ratio of the diameter of the eye, taken from the cornea to the optic nerve. IV. Chenevix examined also the humours of the eyes of birds. He found them composed of the same materials... | |
 | 1803 - 726 pages
...between the denfity of the aqueous and vitreous humour, and that of the cryftalline, is in the inverfe ratio of the diameter of the eye taken from the cornea to the optic nerve ; and fhould farther experiments prove this to be an univerfal law of nature, it will not be poffible... | |
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... difference which appears to exist between the specific gravity of the aqueous or vitreous humour and that of the crystalline, is much greater in the human eye than in that of sheep, and less in the eye of the ox. Hence it would appear that the difference... 