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" But that vision is effected in this manner may be demonstrated experimentally. Take a bullock's eye while it is fresh, and having cut off the three coats from the back part, quite to the vitreous humour, put a piece of white paper over that part and hold... "
Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics ... - Page 212
by James Ferguson - 1776 - 444 pages
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Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and ...

James Ferguson - 1764 - 322 pages
...effected in this manner, may be demonftrated experimentally. Take a bullock's eye whilft it is frefh, and having cut off the three coats from the back part,...an inverted picture of the object upon the paper. Since the image is inverted, many have wondered why the object appears upright- But we are to confider,...
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The school of arts; or, an introduction to useful knowledge

John Imison - 1796 - 476 pages
...effefted in this manner, may be demonftrated experimentally. Take a bullock's eye while it is frelh, and having cut off the three coats from the back part,...over that part, and hold the eye towards any bright objeft, and you will fee an inverted pifture of the objeft upon thepaper, Seeing Seeing the image is...
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Encyclopędia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 13, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...experimentally. Take a bullock's eye wbillt it is freih ; and having cut off the three coat» from the back-part, quite to the vitreous humour, put a piece of white paper over that part, and hold the tye towards any bright object, and you will fee an inverted picture of the objed upon the paper. Since...
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The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education ..., Volume 1

Thomas Hodson - Arithmetic - 1806 - 502 pages
...of which is the following:-; — take a bullock's eye, while it is frefh, from a newly killed beaft, and having cut off the three coats from the back part, quite to the vitreous humour, put a piece of paper behind that part, and hold the front of the eye towards any bright object, and there will be...
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Lectures on Experimental Philosophy, Astronomy, and Chemistry ..., Volume 1

George Gregory - Astronomy - 1808 - 452 pages
...be demonstrated experimentally. Take a bullock's eye while it is fresh, and having cut off the coals from the back part, quite to the vitreous humour,...hold the eye towards any bright object, and you will see an inverted picture of the object upon the paper. It has been a matter of inquiry among scien•...
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The British encyclopedia, or, Dictionary of arts and sciences, Volume 6

William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...demonstrated experimentally. Take a bullock's eye, while it is fresh, and having cut off the three coaU from the back part, quite to the vitreous humour, put a piece of white paper over that pirt, and hold the eye towards any bright object, and you will sec an inverted picture of the objert...
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Encyclopędia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences ..., Volume 15

Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...effeńed in this manner, may be demonilrated experimentally. Take a bullock's eye whilll it is freih ; and having cut off the three coats from the back part,...hold the eye towards any bright object, and you will lee au inverted pińure of the oojett upon the paper, or the fame thing may be better accompliihed...
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Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects, in Mechanics, Hydrostatics ...

James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...effected in this manner, may be demonstrated experimentally. Take a bullock's eye while it is fresh, and having cut off the three coats from the back part,...humour, put a piece of white paper over that part, and holding the eye toward any bright object, you will then see an inverted picture of the object upon...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts ..., Volume 16

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...effected in this manner may be detnonftrated experimentally. Take a bullock's eye whilft it is frefh ; and having cut off the three coats from the back part, quite to the vitreous humour, (Jig. 8. PI. CCL1 V.) of the outer coat, is called the put a piece of white paper over that part and...
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Lectures on Experimental Philosophy, Astronomy, and Chemistry ..., Volume 1

George Gregory - Science - 1820 - 458 pages
...may be demonstrated experimentally. Take a bullock's eye while it is fresh, and having cut off the coats from the back part, quite to the vitreous humour,...hold the eye towards any bright object, and you will see an inverted picture of the object upon the paper. It has been a matter of inquiry among scientific...
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