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" tis a Sense of that Motion under the Form of Sound ; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition to reflect this or that sort of Rays more copiously than the Rest; in the Rays they are nothing but their Dispositions to propagate this or that... "
Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Page 42
by Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1862
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 47

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 768 pages
...Sound ; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition to reflect this or that sort of Hays more copiously than the rest ; in the Rays they are...into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the forms of Colours."1 Again, with greater definiteness, Newton...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 47

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 772 pages
...Sound ; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition to reflect this or that sort of Hays more copiously than the rest ; in the Rays they are...into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the forms of Colours."1 Again, with greater definiteness, Newton...
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Proceedings, Volume 47

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 764 pages
...Sound; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition to reflect this or that sort of Hays more copiously than the rest ; in the Rays they are...into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the forms of Colours."' Again, with greater definiteness, Newton...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 766 pages
...Sound ; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition to reflect this or that sort of Hays more copiously than the rest ; in the Rays they are...their dispositions to propagate this or that Motion iuto the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the forms of Colours."1...
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and ...

Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 382 pages
...motion, and in the air nothing but that motion propagated from the object, and in the sensorium 'tis a sense of that motion under the form of sound ; so...into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours." 47 Here the current doctrine of secondary...
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Theories of Light: From Descartes to Newton

A. I. Sabra - 1981 - 372 pages
...Motion, and in the Air nothing but that Motion propagated from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a Sense of that Motion under the Form of Sound; so...into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the Forms of Colours.' See also ibid., Bk. I, Pt. II, Prop. V, Theor....
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Problems of Empiricism: Volume 2: Philosophical Papers

Paul Feyerabend - 1985 - 272 pages
...(Cohen, 57). 'Colours of objects are nothing but a disposition to reflect this or that sort of ray more copiously than the rest; in the rays they are...into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of those motions under the form of colours' (Opticks. 125). The 'simple' or 'homogeneal'...
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The Judgment of Sense: Renaissance Naturalism and the Rise of Aesthetics

David Summers - 1990 - 384 pages
...images. Newton argued similarly that we do not really see colors, rather the various rays of light "propagate this or that Motion into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are sensations of those Motions under the Forms of Colours."21 Sight does not apprehend forms, but rather...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century

H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...colour in his Opticks (1704). 'Rays of light', said Newton, 'to speak properly are not coloured . . . Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the Forms of Colours' (Newton, Opticks, p. 125). The sensorium is...
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Gaia 2: Emergence : the New Science of Becoming

William Irwin Thompson - 1991 - 276 pages
...from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a Sense of that Motion under the Form of Sound; so Colors in the Object are nothing but a Disposition to reflect...into the Sensorium, and in the sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the Forms of Colors. 4 In this paragraph, Newton does not offer an...
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