Natural Theology; Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1822 - 364 pagina's |
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Pagina 15
... distance at which objects are viewed by the naked eye , viz . from a few inches to as many miles . These difficulties present not themselves to the maker of the telescope . He wants all the light he can get ; and he never directs his ...
... distance at which objects are viewed by the naked eye , viz . from a few inches to as many miles . These difficulties present not themselves to the maker of the telescope . He wants all the light he can get ; and he never directs his ...
Pagina 16
... distance from it , that , for example , of as many furlongs ( I speak in both cases of the distance at which distinct vision can be exercised ) . Now this , according to the principles of optics , that is , according to the laws by ...
... distance from it , that , for example , of as many furlongs ( I speak in both cases of the distance at which distinct vision can be exercised ) . Now this , according to the principles of optics , that is , according to the laws by ...
Pagina 17
... distance from the eye , and which consequently must enter the eye in a spreading or diverging order , cannot , by the same optical instrument in the same state , be brought to a point , i . c . be made to form an image , in the same ...
... distance from the eye , and which consequently must enter the eye in a spreading or diverging order , cannot , by the same optical instrument in the same state , be brought to a point , i . c . be made to form an image , in the same ...
Pagina 18
... distance . Can any thing be more decisive of contrivance than this is ? The most secret laws of optics must have been known to the author of a structure endowed with such a capacity of change . It is as though an optician , when he had ...
... distance . Can any thing be more decisive of contrivance than this is ? The most secret laws of optics must have been known to the author of a structure endowed with such a capacity of change . It is as though an optician , when he had ...
Pagina 19
... distance from the tablet , upon which the picture is delineated , should be shortened or lengthened ; this , I say , being the case and the difficulty to which the eye was to be adapted , we find its several parts capable of being ...
... distance from the tablet , upon which the picture is delineated , should be shortened or lengthened ; this , I say , being the case and the difficulty to which the eye was to be adapted , we find its several parts capable of being ...
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