... 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 39by sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870Full view - About this book
| Richard Cronin - 1988 - 248 pages
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| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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