 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 Seiten
...agreed by all, that distance, of itself, cannot be seen. For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter. " I find it also acknowledged, that the estimate we... | |
 | Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach - 1832 - 180 Seiten
...distance of " itself, and immediately, cannot be seen. For " distance being a line directed end- wise to the " eye, it projects only one point in the fund of " the eye; which point remains invariably the " same, whether the distance be longer or shor" ter. I find it also acknowledged, that the " estimate... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1842 - 256 Seiten
...that distance of itself and immediately cannot be seen. For distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye ; which point remains invariably the same whether the distance be longer or shorter." Such is the single reason he assigns to prove the... | |
 | 1842 - 650 Seiten
...that " distance of itself and immediately cannot be seen, inasmuch as being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter;" an argument which, if it has any meaning and any... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - 548 Seiten
...that distance of itself, and immediately, cannot be seen. For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye. Which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter. III. I find it also acknowledged, that the estimate... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - 556 Seiten
...that distance of itself, and immediately, cannot be seen. For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye. Which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter. IV. But when an object is placed at so near a distance,... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - 542 Seiten
...that distance of itself, and immediately, cannot be seen. For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye. Which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter. III. I find it also acknowledged, that the estimate... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1848 - 584 Seiten
...agreed by all, that distance, of itself, cannot be seen. For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter. " I find it also acknowledged, that the estimate vie... | |
 | 1850 - 836 Seiten
...agreed by all, that distance, of itself, cannot be seen. For distance being a line directed endiose, to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter." But granting that Sir David has proved his point,—... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1851 - 256 Seiten
...prove the impossibility of seeing distance. It is in his own words as follows : — directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye. Which point remains invariably the same whether the distance be longer or shorter." According to our first rule, we have to begin the... | |
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It is, I think, agreed by all that Distance, of itself and immediately, cannot be seen. For, distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance... 
