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" ... tis a sense of that motion under the form of a sound; so colours in the object are nothing but a disposition to reflect this or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest... "
Spectrum analysis, 6 lects - Page 39
by sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870
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Colour and Experience in Nineteenth-century Poetry

Richard Cronin - 1988 - 248 pages
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A History of Philosophy: Hobbes to Hume

Frederick Compleston, Frederick Charles Copleston - 1994 - 448 pages
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Foundations of Vision

Brian A. Wandell - 1995 - 508 pages
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Clear and Queer Thinking: Wittgenstein's Development and His Relevance to ...

Laurence Goldstein - 1999 - 260 pages
...would know what the perceptual experiences of a normal observer are like. Newton advanced the view that 'colours in the object are nothing but a disposition...or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest' (Newton, 1952, p. 125). However, to say that colours are dispositions (John Locke and many subsequent...
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A History of Philosophy, Volume 5

Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 pages
...in this world of the scientist there are only primary qualities. In things, colours, for instance, are '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 to propagate this or that motion into the...
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Visual Color and Color Mixture: The Fundamental Color Space

Jozef Cohen - 2001 - 256 pages
...is 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...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...
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Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

Donald D Hoffman - 2000 - 324 pages
...subtleties of the way you construct color. Similarly, Newton and many of his successors thought that "Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...or that sort of Rays more copiously than the rest." Their idea is simple. Light is composed of different rays, which we now describe as having different...
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British Philosophy: Hobbes to Hume

Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 pages
...in this world of the scientist there are only primary qualities. In things, colours, for instance, are '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 to propagate this or that motion into the...
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Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology V2: S to Z Part Two

James Mark Baldwin - 2006 - 428 pages
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Physical Techniques in the Study of Art, Archaeology and Cultural ..., Volume 2

2007 - 282 pages
...251 4.2.5. Limitations 254 4.3. Conclusion 254 Acknowledgements 255 References 255 1. INTRODUCTION "Colours in the object are nothing but a disposition...or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest (Rosen et al., 2000)" Newton's Optiks, 1704 Reflectance spectroscopy has already been applied successfully...
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