| 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...are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours'.2 If we prescind, therefore, from man and his sensations we are left with a system of masses,... | |
| 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...are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours'. So a theory of colour is, for Newton, a theory not of light rays, but of visual sensation.... | |
| Donald D Hoffman - 2000 - 324 pages
...Colour. . . . 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...are Sensations of those Motions under the Forms of Colours. Newton and many of his successors thought that individual rays of light have the "Power and... | |
| Jozef Cohen - 2001 - 256 pages
...that Colour 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 a disposition to propagate this or that Motion into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations... | |
| 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...are sensations of those motions under the forms of colours'.2 If we prescind, therefore, from man and his sensations we are left with a system of masses,... | |
| 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...are Sensations of those Motions under the Forms of Colours."6 We can perhaps forgive Newton a little vagueness about how we see colors, given his great... | |
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