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" ... experiments would be apt to frame. For the rays, to speak properly, are not coloured. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. For as sound in a bell or musical string, or other... "
Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester - Page 49
by Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester - 1862
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Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century

Robert Routledge - 1893 - 732 pages
...certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. For, as sound in a bell, a musical string, or other sounding body, is nothing...motion propagated from the object, and in the sensorium 't is a sense of that motion under the form of a sound ; so colours in the object are nothing but a...
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Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century

Robert Routledge - 1896 - 780 pages
...to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. For, as sound in a bell, a musical string, or othei sounding body, is nothing but a trembling motion,...motion propagated from the object, and in the sensorium 't is a sense of that motion under the form of a sound ; so colours in the object are nothing but a...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 47

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 762 pages
...all these Experiments would be apt to frame. For the Rays to speak properly are not coloured. In them is nothing else than a certain Power and Disposition...Motion propagated from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a Sense of that Motion under the form of Sound ; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...
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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
...all these Experiments would be apt to frame. For the Rays to speak properly are not coloured. In them is nothing else than a certain Power and Disposition...Motion propagated from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a Sense of that Motion under the form of Sound ; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 766 pages
...Disposition to stir up a Sensation of this or that Colour." " For as Sound in a Bell or musical Stringer other sounding Body is nothing but a trembling motion,...Motion propagated from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a Sense of that Motion under the form of Sound ; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...
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Proceedings, Volume 47

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 764 pages
...Disposition to stir up a Sensation of this or that Colour." " For as Sound in a Bell or musical Stringer other sounding Body is nothing but a trembling motion,...that Motion propagated from the Object, and in the Sensoriuni 'tis a Sense of that Motion under the form of Sound; so Colours in the Object are nothing...
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and ...

Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 382 pages
...asserted at somewhat greater length. " If at any time I speak of light and rays as coloured or endued with colours, I would be understood to speak not philosophically...motion propagated from the object, and in the sensorium 'tis a sense of that motion under the form of sound ; so colours in the object are nothing but a disposition...
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Theories of Light: From Descartes to Newton

A. I. Sabra - 1981 - 372 pages
...and violet, I call Yellow-making, Greenmaking, Blue-making, Violet-making, and so of the rest. . . . For the rays to speak properly are not coloured. In...Motion propagated from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a Sense of that Motion under the Form of Sound; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...
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Auge & Ohr: Studien zur Erforschung der Sprache am Menschen 1700-1850

Joachim Gessinger - 1994 - 824 pages
...Optik in diesem Jahrhundert, Berkeleys "Theory of vision' und Goethes 'Farbenlehre'. Newton fuhr fort: For as sound in a Bell or musical String, or other...Motion propagated from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a sense of that Motion under the form of sound; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a disposition...
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Reflecting Senses: Perception and Appearance in Literature, Culture, and the ...

Walter Pape, Frederick Burwick - 1995 - 380 pages
...certain Power and Disposition to stir up a Sensation of this or that Colour. For as Sound in a Bell or [...] other sounding Body, is nothing but a trembling...nothing but that Motion propagated from the Object. Blake condenses the conclusion of this discursive description into his image of the "passing Wind,"...
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