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... Touch - The Sea - Anemone - The Barnacle - Clio Borealis- The Angler - Fishes under control - The Snake - Insects - Birds - The Lion -Proboscis of the Elephant - Various parts of the Frame on which the Hand PAGE 33 1 CONTENTS . is ...
... Touch - The Sea - Anemone - The Barnacle - Clio Borealis- The Angler - Fishes under control - The Snake - Insects - Birds - The Lion -Proboscis of the Elephant - Various parts of the Frame on which the Hand PAGE 33 1 CONTENTS . is ...
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... touching the cornea pass through the aqueous humour , which being denser than air causes them to be thus refracted . After passing through this humour they proceed through the lens , suffering still further refraction , next through the ...
... touching the cornea pass through the aqueous humour , which being denser than air causes them to be thus refracted . After passing through this humour they proceed through the lens , suffering still further refraction , next through the ...
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... touch , whence , after due experience , a knowledge of bodies is obtained , which neither would communicate alone . Thus touch gives us the softness , lightness , warmth , and texture of a feather ; sight its colour , and , mainly , its ...
... touch , whence , after due experience , a knowledge of bodies is obtained , which neither would communicate alone . Thus touch gives us the softness , lightness , warmth , and texture of a feather ; sight its colour , and , mainly , its ...
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... touch , and that only after a long series of experiments . It is easy to see , that if an ele- phant and a sparrow are at the same distance from the eye , the angle formed by imaginary lines , from the ex- treme points of the dimensions ...
... touch , and that only after a long series of experiments . It is easy to see , that if an ele- phant and a sparrow are at the same distance from the eye , the angle formed by imaginary lines , from the ex- treme points of the dimensions ...
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... touch has not yet corrected that of sight , and they have yet to learn , by practice , what are the relations of size and distance . After all , the ideas of distance and of size are more or less imperfect , and while sight continues ...
... touch has not yet corrected that of sight , and they have yet to learn , by practice , what are the relations of size and distance . After all , the ideas of distance and of size are more or less imperfect , and while sight continues ...
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adapted admirable animals appears aqueous humour bird bone called canals cavity chameleon choroid cobra cochlea colour common conveyed cornea covered crystalline lens deer delicate distance distinct eustachian tube eyelids fibres fingers fishes flowers fluid fore-arm fragrance gland hand horse human inferior creatures insects instance instrument INTERNAL STRUCTURE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER labyrinth LACHRYMAL GLAND lens membrane mind minute motion mouth move muscles musical musk MUSK DEER nerves nostrils object observed odours olfactory nerves opening parrot pass peculiar perfume placed plate pleasure prey proboscis produced pulpy pupil quadrupeds rays of light receive remarkable reptiles resemblance retina round says scapula scent sclerotic coat sea anemone seized sense of hearing sense of smell sense of taste sense of touch serpent side sight sonorous body sound substance surface tasters teeth tips tongue transparent trees tube tubercle tympanum ulna upper various vibrations vitreous humour vultures woodpecker
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