Color images in the brain : being an account of the detection of visible objects, seen posited on exchanged sides in the brain, after the intromission of impressions of light, reflected from external objects, one in each eye ... / by John Fearn.

  • Fearn, John, 1768-1837.
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[1831]
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Credit: Color images in the brain : being an account of the detection of visible objects, seen posited on exchanged sides in the brain, after the intromission of impressions of light, reflected from external objects, one in each eye ... / by John Fearn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the AUTHOR. 4^ COLOR IMAGES IN THE BRAIN; BEING an account of the detection of Visible Objects, seen posited on exchanged sides in the Brain, after the intro- mission of impressions of light, reflected from external objects, one in each eye:—a description of which facts formed the substance of a paper read to the Royal So- ciety at their last meeting;—of which paper, the Society has printed an Abstract;—the present print being in- tended as a Supplement to the previously-published Rationale of the Laws of Cerebral Vision : — By John Fearn, Esq.—London: Published by Messrs. Longman and Co., and Rowland Hunter. INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT Of the first reception of the fact of Color Images in the Brain, in England: involving remarks on the Change induced on the State of Philosophy hy the detection of that fact. Every reade., either of the present Paper, or of the Rationale which preceded it, except those who are intimate with philosophy, will at first suppose that he is only going to be introduced to a new stage of the Physiology of Vi- sion. But every reader, of the least liberal education, will be satisfied, before he get through this Preface, that the detection of Color Images in the Brain is not only a stage in the physiology of Vision, and of the Brain; but it is also a test, which exhibits to ordinary cognisance the final colli- sion of two of the most comprehensive philosophies that ever divided the opinions, and affected the weal, of man- kind—namely—the Philosophy of Newton, and that which has held it in ridicule,—an assertion which, be it observed, A