 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 páginas
...distinction is not necessary. In the infancy of philosophy, sound was held to be a separate existence ; it was conceived to be wafted through the air to our...sound, was only the particular motion of external fross matter, propagated to the ear, and Ihere producing that agitation of the organ by which the soul... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 432 páginas
...held to be a separate existe nee ; it was conceived to lae wafted through the air to our organs if hearing, which it was supposed to affect in a manner...founder of the Stoic school, who held that sound, Unit is, the cause of sound, was only the particular motion of external gross matter, propagated to... | |
 | 1823 - 876 páginas
...would be, although no hearing animal existed. This was conceived as wafted through the air to our organ of hearing, which it was supposed to affect in a manner...affected when they give us the sensation of smell. It was one of the Platonic SPECIES, fitted for exciting the intellectual species, which is the immediate... | |
 | Joseph Battell - 1909 - 352 páginas
...This was conceived as wafted through the air to our organ of hearing, which it was supposed to effect in a manner resembling that in which our nostrils...affected when they give us the sensation of smell. It is one of the Platonic species, fitted for exciting the intellectual species, which is the immediate... | |
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... of hearing, which it was supposed to affect in a manner resembling that in which our nostrils are affected when they give us the sensation of smell. Yet, even in those early years of science, there were some, and, in particular, the celebrated founder... 