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" It will now be obvious why it is impossible for the artist to give a faithful representation of any near solid object, that is, to produce a painting which shall not be distinguished in the mind from the object itself. "
Scientific dialogues, with corrections by O. Gregory - Page 336
by Jeremiah Joyce - 1853
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 128

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Mathematics - 1838 - 538 pages
...small that they need not be taken into account. It will now be obvious why it is impossible for the artist to give a faithful representation of any near...distinguished in the mind from the object itself. When the painting and the object are seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar pictures...
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The Physiology of Vision

William Mackenzie - Eye - 1841 - 326 pages
...the differences must be too small to be taken into account. Mr Wheatstone's discovery explains why it is impossible for an artist to give a faithful...distinguished in the mind from the object itself. When the painting and the object are seen with both eyes, in the. case of the painting two similar...
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The Annals of Electricity Magnetism and Chemistry and Guardian of ..., Volume 7

1841 - 542 pages
...small that they need not be taken into account. It will now be obvious why it is impossible for the artist to give a faithful representation of any near...distinguished in the mind from the object itself. When the painting and the object are seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar pictures...
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A Review of Berkeley's Theory of Vision: Designed to Show the Unsoundness of ...

Samuel Bailey - Vision - 1842 - 256 pages
...retina, and be perceived as a plane. " It will now be obvious," he says, " why it is impossible for the artist to give a faithful representation of any near...distinguished in the mind from the object itself. When the painting and the object are seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar pictures...
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The Senses and the Intellect

Alexander Bain - Mind and body - 1855 - 758 pages
...seven inches immediately before the spectator." ' It will now be obvious why it is impossible for the artist to give a faithful representation of any near...distinguished in the mind from the object itself. When the painting and the object are seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting, two similar...
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The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone

Sir Charles Wheatstone - Physics - 1879 - 446 pages
...small that they need not be taken into account. It will now be obvious why it is impossible for the artist to give a faithful representation of any near...distinguished in the mind from the object itself. When the painting and the object are seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar pictures...
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The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone

Sir Charles Wheatstone - Electricity - 1879 - 454 pages
...small that they need not be taken into account. It will now be obvious why it is impossible for the. artist to give a faithful representation of any near...distinguished in the mind from the object itself. "\Vhen the painting and the object are seen with both eyes, in the case of the "painting two similar...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

Physics - 1852 - 1172 pages
...small that they need not be taken into account. It will now be obvious why it is impossible for the artist to give a faithful representation of any near...distinguished in the mind from the object itself. When the painting and the object are seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar pictures...
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Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

Jonathan Crary - Design - 1992 - 190 pages
...excluded," we could mistake the representation for reality. He declares that up to this point in history it is impossible for an artist to give a faithful representation of any near solid object. When the painting and the object are seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar objects...
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The Nineteenth-century Visual Culture Reader

Vanessa R. Schwartz, Jeannene M. Przyblyski - Art - 2004 - 440 pages
...excluded," we could mistake the representation for reality. He declares that up to this point in history it is impossible for an artist to give a faithful representation of any near solid object. When the painting and the object are seen with both eyes, in the case of the painting two similar objects...
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