 | Agriculture - 1824 - 516 pages
...and contemplate the phantom in the eye ; and if, while the image continues to be present of a tine blue colour, we press the eye aside with the finger,...the consciousness or sensation of muscular activity. . . . - » f. • " These experiments and this explanation of the effect of the associated action of... | |
 | Science - 1825 - 616 pages
...and fix the eye on the centre of it, and then shut the eye and contemplate the phantom in the eye l and if, while the image continues to be present of...consciousness or sensation of muscular activity." — Phil. Trans. 1823, p. 177—180. The passage now quoted contains three important results : 1. That... | |
 | John Bell, Sir Charles Bell - Human anatomy - 1829 - 520 pages
...not associated with the impression on the retina, so as to affect the idea excited in the mind. Jt is owing to the same cause that, when looking on the...account of the eye and of optics, lately published by Dr. Brewster, it is said on this question, " We know nothing more than that the mind residing, as... | |
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... change to the sensorium, and is not associated with the impression on the retina, so as to affect the idea excited in the mind ? It is owing to the same cause that, when looking on the lamp, by pressing one eye, we can make two images, and we can... 