 | Sir David Brewster, Robert Jameson - Science - 1822 - 458 pages
...opinion, that the vitreous humour of his own eye is of a deep blue tinge), that " it is much more simple to suppose the absence or paralysis of those fibres...of the leading facts, to suppose that the retina is insensible to certain colours. Dr Wollaston, in his interesting paper on sounds inaudible to certain... | |
 | Science - 1824 - 628 pages
...opinion, that the vitreous humour of his own eye is of a deep blue tinge,) that "it is much more simple to suppose the absence or paralysis of those fibres...perception of different colours, we have no. evidence; hut it seems quite sufficient for the explanation of the leading facts, to suppose that the retina... | |
 | Technology - 1826 - 478 pages
...the eye, we cannot hold it as an explanation of the phenomena. Dr. Young thinks it much more simple to suppose the absence or paralysis of those fibres...of the retina which are calculated to perceive red ; while Dr. Brewster conceives that the eye is, in spectrum, just as the ear of certain persons has... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1826 - 476 pages
...tiie eye, we cannot hold it as an explanation of the phenomena. Dr. Young thinks it much more simple to suppose the absence or paralysis of those fibres...of the retina which are, calculated to perceive red ; while Dr. Brewster conceives that the eye is, in spectrum, just as the ear of certain persons has... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1826 - 490 pages
...the eye, we cannot hold it as an explanation of the phenomena. Dr. Young thinks it much more simple to suppose the absence or paralysis of those fibres...of the retina which are calculated to perceive red ; while Dr. Brewster conceives that the eye is, in spectrum, just as the ear of certain persons has... | |
 | Science - 1826 - 412 pages
...the eye, we cannot hold it as an explanation of the phenomena. Dr Young thinks it much more simple to suppose the absence or paralysis of those fibres...of the retina which are calculated to perceive red ; while Dr Brewstcr conceives that the eye is, in these cases, insensible to the colours at the one... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1826 - 488 pages
...the eye, we cannot hold it i an explanation of the phenomena. Dr. Young thinks it much more simple to suppose the absence or paralysis of those fibres of the retina ifhich are calculated to perceive red ; while Dr. Brewster conceives that the eye is, in these cases,... | |
 | Phrenology - 1832 - 700 pages
...Dr Thomas Young rejects Dalton's theory, and thinks it " much more simple to suppose the absence of paralysis of those fibres of the retina, which are calculated to perceive red." There is no evidence of the existence of such fibres in the retina, and • Phrenology, p. 276. f Phrenological... | |
 | Medicine - 1839 - 542 pages
...of the eye, and does not even explain all the phenomena. Dr. Young thinks it more simple to suppose absence or paralysis of those fibres of the retina which are calculated to perceive red; but there is no evidence of there existing in the retina fibres suited to the perception of the different... | |
 | John Bell - Medicine, Eclectic - 1840 - 482 pages
...of the eye, and does not even explain all the phenomena. Dr. Young thinks it more simple to suppose absence or paralysis of those fibres of the retina which are calculated to perceive red ; but there is no evidence of there existing in the retina fibres suited to the perception of the different... | |
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Young thinks it much more simple to suppose the absence or paralysis of those fibres of the retina which are calculated to perceive red ; while Dr. 
