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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -

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  1. stance only, by which ercey Body, 25 much as it ene et Parrs of the Medium) moves che Fyc just
  2. may, endearours ro continue in rhar Scare in which atrer che lame manner as he Objectis supposed ee
  3. ic is; cichex oE Rest, or Morion, uniformly for. have determin d ic; wtich Morion, is continued
  4. ward in a riphr Linc. This is alivars proporriona along rhie Optick Nerre, ux inro che Brain, Where
  5. ble cothe Body or Mass which ic is in, and disters ir moves che Conarion or Clandula Pinealis, viet
  6. nochins trom the Inactivirr ot che Matrer Ox BodY,
  7. bue onty in che manner ot Conceirinq ic: And
  8. cheretore chis vis insita, may most properly becalld, co judge decordinely.
  9. Vis Mertiae. Nemt. Princip. Math.
  10. VIS Morrix, is the Poiver wrhich produces the
  11. Morion ot any Body trom Place to Flace: Thus
  12. Gravier is a vis Morrix donnivards, or comards
  13. che Cenrer oFche Farrti.
  14. VISCERA, are ehe Boels contained in chechree
  15. srear Caviries oF che Body, a5 che Anaromists ca
  16. The. They are called also Exra and Inter-
  17. ranea
  18. VISIBLE HoriZoN. Sec HorizOn.
  19. VISIBL E PLace OF a STAT. Sec Apparent Place.
  20. VISIBLE Species. Sce Species Visibiles
  21. VISION, is a Senlation in che Brain, proceed.
  22. ins trom a due and rarions Morion oF che Oprick
  23. Verre, produced in che bocom of che Fye, b
  24. the Rars oF Lighie comins trom any Object; by
  25. erhich means, che soul perceires che illuminared
  26. Thins, togecher wich iis Ouantirs, Oualirs, arid
  27. Modisicarion.
  28. Whecher chePicture ottheobject be made on the
  29. Tunica Retina, Or on the Choroides, there is a great
  30. Dispure between MIr. Pecquet and MIP. Mariotre, in
  31. thc Philos. Frans. N. 59, EC.
  32. AS to the manner hou ehis noble sense oF Seeine
  33. is produced, chere vere many Fyporheles amOnB
  34. che AncientS.
  35. P. The Stoichs imasined, Fhar certain visuat
  36. Rays evene from che Brain chrough che Oprick
  37. Nerre and Rre, and From chence ro the Object;
  38. and chere (just like a Blind MIanS STaH) Feet out
  39. che Figure, Colour, and Dimensions ot che Ob.
  40. ject.
  41. 2. The Pythacoreans thouxHE, ThaE there WenE
  42. lome rilual Species our of che Eye o the Object,
  43. Wrhrich evere immediacels reRected back again from
  44. chence roche Ere, and (o produced Vision.
  45. 3. Plato Supposed, Thac boch From the Fye arel
  46. the Object, chere eame substantial FMuria, Wtict
  47. mectine halt ay, and encouncerins che Ocular
  48. Fsuria, che lacrer vere beat back again ro the Fye.
  49. and chere communicaredche Imprection ther had
  50. received trom thole FMuria which came Trom the
  51. Object; and s0 caused thesense oF Sceins.
  52. 1. Aristorle alserred, That the Colours oF all Ob-
  53. jects did move che cransparene Medium, a5 char
  54. did che Fre, and chereby communicate cheir Ima-
  55. Ses corhe Brain, Or commune sensorium.
  56. S. Epicurus, judiciousr rejectine che Norion OF
  57. any Fimanation of visible Species trom che Fye;
  58. and noc chinkins che action oF che incermediare
  59. Air or Medium Cufficiene to acconne For Vision
  60. righels concluded, Thar chesense ot Vision aspro-
  61. duced by a substantial mareriat EMux From the
  62. Object 1o the Cyc.
  63. 6. Carrez, suppoles Vilion pertormed by barc
  64. Morion only; richour any macerial Emanation
  65. rom che Obiect; buc onts, chac chc Listr (itich ive may conceire che Cryltalline tumouc BB, 20
  66. VIS Insita Mareriae, is the bate LOet Ot HC s also is nor a BOdy, buE the MOriON OE
  67. him, che Seac oF che Soul; and by chat mealts.
  68. Produces incernal Senlarion, and enables te soul
  69. The manner of Vision with ihe nabed Eye, accordine
  70. eo Mr. Molyneux his Explication os it, in Diope
  71. NOr. p. 103.
  72. Suppole abc an Object, i ke le m the Globe ot
  73. ihe Lye, Furnisted wich all ies Coars and Llumours
  74. buchere che Crystalline Hlumour s oh is onty ex
  75. Pelsd, 25 beins principally concernd in Formins
  76. the imase on the Lund ofche Liyc.
  77. r. From cach Point of the Object, we may con-
  78. ceive Rays Rowins co the Pupil ofthe Rye i K; 2d
  79. here from che midale Point b, chere proceed che
  80. RaYSb5, b0, bh; thele, by means oF the COatS
  81. and Flumours of the Eye, and especially by ihic
  82. Crrstalline Hlumour sB, are retracte d and brouehe
  83. Cogether on the Rerina or Fund of che Rire in che
  84. Poine e, and there the Point b is Represenced. For

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