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" 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 sounding body, is nothing but a trembling... "
Spectrum Analysis: Six Lectures, Delivered in 1868, Before the Society of ... - Page 41
by Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 484 pages
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Spectrum analysis, 6 lects

sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 452 pages
...refractions, and by consequence that the variety of colours depends upon the composition of light. DEF1N1T1ON. The homogeneal light and rays which appear red, or...this or that motion into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours. APPENDIX B. BURNlNG MAGNESlUM...
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Spectrum analysis, 6 lects

sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 550 pages
...faintly. I never yet found any body which by reflecting homogeneal light could sensibly change its colour. whole world, nor would it be possible to produce any...this or that motion into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours. APPENDIX B. BURNING MAGNESIUM...
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Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century

Robert Routledge - 1893 - 732 pages
...motion, and in the air nothing but that motion propagated from the object, and in the sensorium 't is a sense of that motion under the form of a sound ;...this or that motion into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of these motions under the form of colours." These memorable investigations...
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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
...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...this or that Motion into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the forms of Colours."1 Again, with greater definiteness,...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 766 pages
...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 to reflect this or that sort of Hays more copiously than the rest ; in the Rays they are nothing but their dispositions to propagate...
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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
...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 to reflect this or that sort of Hays more copiously than the rest ; in the Rays they are nothing but their dispositions to propagate...
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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
...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 to reflect this or that sort of Hays more copiously than the rest ; in the Rays they are nothing but their dispositions to propagate...
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Proceedings, Volume 47

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 764 pages
...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 but a Disposition to reflect this or that sort of Hays more copiously than the rest ; in the Rays they are nothing but their dispositions to propagate...
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and ...

Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 382 pages
...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...this or that motion into the sensorium, and in the sensorium they are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours." 47 Here the current doctrine...
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Psyche, Volume 8

Charles Kay Ogden - 1928 - 468 pages
...nothing else than a certain power or disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour .... So colours in the object are nothing but a disposition...or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest." Moreover, it is to be noted that in the original theory of Thomas Young it was the physiological difficulty...
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