THESE vibrations are motions backwards and forwards of the small particles; of the same kind with the oscillations of pendulums, and the tremblings of the particles of sounding bodies. They must be conceived to be exceedingly short and small, so as not... Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the Mind - Էջ 434Benjamin Rush - 1981 - 735 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| David Hartley - 1801 - 544 էջ
...muft be conceived to be exceedingly fhort and fmall, fo as not to have the Icaft efficacy to difturb or move the whole bodies of the nerves or brain. For that the nerves themfelves fhould vibrate like mufical mufical firings, is highly abfurd ; nor was it ever afferted... | |
| 1813 - 592 էջ
...Editor of the European Magazine. SIR, ON Ihe subject of nervous vibration? Dr. Hartley says, " They must be conceived to be exceedingly short and small, so as not to have Ihe least em> cacy to disturb or move Ihe whole bodies of the nerves or brain. For," adds he, "thai... | |
| Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 840 էջ
...kind with the oscillations of pendulums and the tremblings of tho particles of sounding bodies. They must be conceived to be exceedingly short and small,...or move the whole bodies of the nerves or brain.* " The white medullary substance of the brain is also the immediate instrument by which ideas are presented... | |
| David Hartley - 1834 - 646 էջ
...kind with the oscillations of pendulums, and the tremblings of the particles of sounding bodies. They must be conceived to be exceedingly short and small,...performance of sensation and motion, by means of vibrations. In like manner we are to suppose the particles which vibrate, to be of the inferior orders, and not... | |
| Robert Blakey - 1848 - 584 էջ
...kind with the oscillations of pendulums, and the tremblings of the particles of sounding bodies. They must be conceived to be exceedingly short and small,...should vibrate like musical strings, is highly absurd We are to suppose the particles which vibrate to be of the inferior orders, and not those biggest particles,... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 482 էջ
...kind as the oscillation of pendulums, and the tremblings of the particles of sounding bodies. They must be conceived to be exceedingly short and small,...should vibrate like musical strings is highly absurd." It appears from a passage in the Contemplation de la Nature of the Genevese naturalist, Charles Bonnet,... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 846 էջ
...kind as the oscillation of pendulums, and the tremblings of the particles of sounding bodies. They must be conceived to be exceedingly short and small, so as not to have the least eflicacy to disturb or move the whole bodies of the nerves or brain. For that the nerves themselves... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1867 - 692 էջ
...kind as the oscillation of pendulums, and the tremblings of the particles of sounding bodies. They must be conceived to be exceedingly short and small,...bodies of the nerves or brain. For that the nerves should vibrate like musical strings is highly absurd.' The proof that external objects impress vibratory... | |
| Amos Dean - 1869 - 542 էջ
...kind as the oscillation of pendulums, and the tremblings of the particles of sounding bodies. They must be conceived to be exceedingly short and small,...should vibrate like musical strings is highly absurd." The nervous ether penetrating the nerves, is the seat of these oscillations. The vibration theory makes... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1871 - 798 էջ
...oscillation of pendulums, and the tremblings the particles of sounding bodies. They must be conceive to be exceedingly short and small, so as not to have the leas HIicacy to disturb or move the whole bodies of the nerve or brain. For that the nerves should... | |
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