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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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Auge & Ohr: Studien zur Erforschung der Sprache am Menschen 1700-1850

Joachim Gessinger - 1994 - 824 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. (Opticks, 1, 90 f.) " Dies konnte als eine...
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Languages of Visuality: Crossings Between Science, Art, Politics, and Literature

Beate Allert - 1996 - 292 pages
...propagated from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a sense of that Motion under the form of sounds; so 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. (l:90ff.)'° This could be interpreted as a...
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A History of Philosophy, Volume 5

Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 pages
...'nothing but a disposition to reflect this or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest, (while) in the rays they are nothing but their dispositions...into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours'.2 If we prescind, therefore, from man and his...
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Clear and Queer Thinking: Wittgenstein's Development and His Relevance to ...

Laurence Goldstein - 1999 - 260 pages
...Immediately after the passage from the Opticks just cited, Newton continues 'in the rays [colours] are nothing but their dispositions to propagate this...into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours'. So a theory of colour is, for Newton, a theory...
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Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

Donald D Hoffman - 2000 - 324 pages
...nothing else than a certain Power and Disposition to stir up a Sensation of this or that Colour. . . . 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 and many of his successors thought that...
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Visual Color and Color Mixture: The Fundamental Color Space

Jozef Cohen - 2001 - 256 pages
...this or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest; in the rays they are nothing but a disposition to propagate this or that Motion into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the forms of Colours. Note Newton's emphasis of the word sensation,...
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British Philosophy: Hobbes to Hume

Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 pages
...'nothing but a disposition to reflect this or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest, (while) in the rays they are nothing but their dispositions...into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours'.2 If we prescind, therefore, from man and his...
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Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color

Philip Ball - 2003 - 426 pages
...the technology of paints as a whole — including the binder. WHEELS OF LIGHT "In the Rays [Colours] are nothing but their Dispositions to propagate this...into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the Forms of Colours."6 We can perhaps forgive Newton a little vagueness...
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