Natural Theology, Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of NatureWilliam and Robert Chambers, 1837 - 100 pagina's |
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... retina in the following manner : -The humours of the eye are com- posed of denser media than the atmospheric air , and , in accordance with a law of optics , a ray of light pass- ing into the eye is bent from its rectilineal course , or ...
... retina in the following manner : -The humours of the eye are com- posed of denser media than the atmospheric air , and , in accordance with a law of optics , a ray of light pass- ing into the eye is bent from its rectilineal course , or ...
Pagina 5
... retina may be easily proved by removing from the fresh eye of an ox all the pos- terior coverings , leaving only the thin and delicate retina . If it be then placed , with the anterior part outwards , in an aper- ture in the window ...
... retina may be easily proved by removing from the fresh eye of an ox all the pos- terior coverings , leaving only the thin and delicate retina . If it be then placed , with the anterior part outwards , in an aper- ture in the window ...
Pagina 6
... retina , or the vision is confused ; yet , other things re- maining the same , this point , by the immutable pro- perties of light , is carried farther back when the rays proceed from a near object , than when they are sent from one ...
... retina , or the vision is confused ; yet , other things re- maining the same , this point , by the immutable pro- perties of light , is carried farther back when the rays proceed from a near object , than when they are sent from one ...
Pagina 7
... retina , but between that point and the nose . The compensating by its roundness the density of the me- difference which this makes is , that no part of an ob- dium through which their light passes . To which we ject is unperceived by ...
... retina , but between that point and the nose . The compensating by its roundness the density of the me- difference which this makes is , that no part of an ob- dium through which their light passes . To which we ject is unperceived by ...
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... retina ; that is , upon its being affected by the most is chance but the absence of a substantive cause , or feeble impulses . But that tenderness of structure , what substantive agency can we assign to a principle which rendered the ...
... retina ; that is , upon its being affected by the most is chance but the absence of a substantive cause , or feeble impulses . But that tenderness of structure , what substantive agency can we assign to a principle which rendered the ...
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