The Five Senses of ManH. S. King, 1876 - 304 стор. |
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... give it a popular appearance . So far the author has aimed at popularity : but he has endeavoured at times to take the reader a step beyond the domain of ordinary popular treatises ; and , if he has not succeeded in smoothing his path ...
... give it a popular appearance . So far the author has aimed at popularity : but he has endeavoured at times to take the reader a step beyond the domain of ordinary popular treatises ; and , if he has not succeeded in smoothing his path ...
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... give it a popular appearance . So far the author has aimed at popularity : but he has endeavoured at times to take the reader a step beyond the domain of ordinary popular treatises ; and , if he has not succeeded in smoothing his path ...
... give it a popular appearance . So far the author has aimed at popularity : but he has endeavoured at times to take the reader a step beyond the domain of ordinary popular treatises ; and , if he has not succeeded in smoothing his path ...
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... give our life an incitement to activity . Our intelligence could even form matter for abstract thought , from these perceptions alone , and by this means arrive at the conception of a line , an angle , a triangle , etc. , from which it ...
... give our life an incitement to activity . Our intelligence could even form matter for abstract thought , from these perceptions alone , and by this means arrive at the conception of a line , an angle , a triangle , etc. , from which it ...
Сторінка 13
... gives us warning of the approach of an excess of heat , which can do just as much harm to the body as the other extreme . The skin , therefore , possesses diffe- rent qualities of sensations . Just as the eye , by the sen- sation of ...
... gives us warning of the approach of an excess of heat , which can do just as much harm to the body as the other extreme . The skin , therefore , possesses diffe- rent qualities of sensations . Just as the eye , by the sen- sation of ...
Сторінка 14
... gives us no knowledge of the nature of external objects . At most we can distin- guish whether the pain felt by the skin is produced by a burn or by the corrosion of acids , or by a sharp instru- ment ; but this takes place only with ...
... gives us no knowledge of the nature of external objects . At most we can distin- guish whether the pain felt by the skin is produced by a burn or by the corrosion of acids , or by a sharp instru- ment ; but this takes place only with ...
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action apparatus appear auditory nerve basilar membrane blue body brain called camera obscura cause centimetres cochlea complementary colours consists convex lens distance distinct distinguish double impression ear-bones edge Ernst Heinrich Weber Eustachian tube exactly excited experience fact fenestra ovalis field of vision figure fingers fixed follows fundamental tone greater green hand harmonics Helmholtz illusion imagine incidental images instance irritation layer look manner means motion move muscles number of vibrations observed octave optic nerve outer passes peculiar perceive a double perception phenomena picture position primary colours produced rays of light recognise refraction retina seen sensation of light sense of locality sense of touch sensitive to red sensory circle sensory nerves sensory organs separate points side simultaneously single nerve-fibre skin sound sound-waves spectrum stereoscopic string surface tactile takes place terminal boundaries terminal limits tion tube tuning-fork tympanic cavity tympanic membrane violet vitreous humour whilst
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