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" Nothing more convincingly shows how requisite experience is to correct the errors of sight, than the case of a young man who was blind from his infancy, and who recovered his sight at the age of fourteen, by the operation of couching. At first he had... "
The Panorama of Science: Or, a Guide to Knowledge - Page 224
by George Grant - 1849 - 320 pages
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 366 pages
...how requisite experience is to correct the errors of sight, 1 shall relate to you the case of a young man who was blind from his infancy, and who recovered...size or distance of objects, but imagined that every tlling he saw touched his eyes ; and it was not till after having repeatedly felt them, and walked...
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1824 - 370 pages
...errors of sight, I shall relate to you the case of a young man who was blind from his infancy, and wbo recovered his sight at the age of fourteen, by the...operation of couching. At first, he had no idea either ef the size or distance of objects, but imagined that every thing he saw touched his eyes; and it was...
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...requisite experience is, to correct the errors of sight, I shall relate to you, the case of a young man, who was blind from his infancy, and who recovered...walked from one object to another, that he acquired an idea of their respective dimensions, their relative situations, and their distances. Caroline. The...
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...actually touches our eyes, y is to correct the errours of sight, I shall relate to you the case of a young man who was blind from his infancy, and who recovered...idea either of the size or distance of objects, but i imagined (that every thing he saw touched his eye¥;Nand if was not till after having repeatedly...
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The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and ...

Levi Washburn Leonard - New Hampshire - 1827 - 398 pages
...errors if experience did not set us right. This is rendered strikingly manifest from the case of a young man who was blind from his infancy, and who recovered...the operation of couching. At first he had no idea eitber of the size or distance of objects, but imagined that every thing he saw touched his eyes ;...
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The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and ...

Levi Washburn Leonard - New Hampshire - 1828 - 368 pages
...errors if experience did not set us right. This is rendered strikingly manifest from the case of a young man who was blind from his infancy, and who recovered...walked from one object to another, that he acquired an idea of their respective dimensions, their relative situations, and their distances. QUESTIONS. —...
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The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and ...

Levi Washburn Leonard - New Hampshire - 1828 - 362 pages
...errors if experience did not set us right. This is rendered strikingly manifest from the case of a young man who was blind from his infancy, and who recovered...objects, but imagined that every thing he saw touched his eyqe ; and it was not till after having repeatedly felt them and walked from one object to another,...
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Astronomy - 1829 - 312 pages
...requisite experience is to correct the errours of sight, I shall relate to you the case of a young man who was blind from his infancy, and who recovered...walked from one object to another that he acquired an idea of their respective dimensions, their relative situations, and their distances. Mrs. B. That is...
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The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and ...

Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 pages
...errors if experience did not set us right. This is rendered strikingly manifest from the case of a young man who was blind from his infancy, and who recovered...from one object to - another, that he acquired an idea of their respective dimensions, their relative situations, and their distances. ONS.—I. What...
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Library of Useful Knowledge: Natural philosophy, Volume 2

1832 - 650 pages
...convincingly shows how requisite experience is to correct the errors of sight, than the case of a young man who was blind from his infancy, and who recovered...walked from one object to another, that he acquired an idea of their respective dimensions, their relative situations, and their distances. Since an image...
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