The human sensorium : investigated as to figure by a course of pressures on the eyes, and by the induced phases and bearings of those sensations of colors called peacock's feathers : being a second supplement to the Rationale of cerebral vision / by John Fearn.

  • Fearn, John, 1768-1837.
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[1832]
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Credit: The human sensorium : investigated as to figure by a course of pressures on the eyes, and by the induced phases and bearings of those sensations of colors called peacock's feathers : being a second supplement to the Rationale of cerebral vision / by John Fearn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE HUMAN SENSORIUM INVESTIGATED AS TO FIGURE By a course of Pressures on the Eyes, and by the induced Phases and Bearings of those Sensations of Colors called Peacock's Feathers; being a Second Supplement to the Rationale of Cerebral Vision. /\i By JOHN FEARN, Esq. When a man in the dark presses either corner of his eye ** with his finger, and turns his eye away from his finger, he '* will see a circle of colours like those in the feather of a ** peacock's tail. Sir Isaac Newton's Optics. ** And these things being rightly despatched. Does it not ** appear from the phenomena that there is a Being, incor- ** poreal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who, in infinite *' space as it were in his sensory, sees the things themselves, ** intimately and tlm oughly perceives them, of which things ** the IMAGES ONLY, carried through the organs of sense into '* our little sensoriums, are there seen and beheld by that *' which in us perceives and thinks? Sir Isaac Newton's Optics. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY MESSRS. LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND ROWLAND HUNTER, ST. PAUt'S CHURCH-YARD.