English Lands Letters And Kings volume 2
English Lands Letters And Kings volume 2
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Kobert Bovle, the son of an Earl, and with all moneyed appliances to help him, was one of the early promotei-s and founders of the Royal Society I spoke of ; a noticeable man every way in that epoch of the Ethereges and the Buckinghams and the Gwynnes — devoting his fortune to worthy works ; estimable in private hf e ; dignified and serene ; tall in person and spare — wearing, like every other well-born Lon- doner, the curled, long-bottomed wig of France, and making sentences in exposition of h...is thought which were longer and stiifer than his wigs. I give you a sample. He is discussing the eye, and wants to say that it is wonderfully constructed ; and this is the way he says it : "To be told that an eye is the organ of sight, and that this is performed by that faculty of the mind which, from its function, is called visive, will give a man but a sorry ac- 2o8 LANDS, LETTERS, &- KINGS.
count of the instruments and manner of vision itself, or of the knowledge of that Opificer who, as the Scripture speaks, formed the eye ; and he that can take up with this easy theory of Vision, will not think it necessary to take the pains to dissect the eyes of animals, nor study the books of mathe- maticians to understand Vision ; and accordingly will have but mean thoughts of the contrivance of the Organ, and the skill of the Artificer, in comparison of the ideas that will be suggested of both of them to him, that being profoundly skilled in anatomy and optics, by their help takes asunder the several coats, humors, muscles, of which that exquisite dioptrical instrument consists ; and having separately con- sidered the size, figure, consistence, texture, diaphaneity or opacity, situation, and connection of each of them, and their coaptation in the whole eye, shall discover, by the help of the laws of optics, how admirably this little organ is fitted to receive the incident beams of light and dispose them in the best manner possible for completing the lively representa- tion of the almost infinitely various objects of sight.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Kobert Bovle, the son of an Earl, and with all moneyed appliances to help him, was one of the early promotei-s and founders of the Royal Society I spoke of ; a noticeable man every way in that epoch of the Ethereges and the Buckinghams and the Gwynnes — devoting his fortune to worthy works ; estimable in private hf e ; dignified and serene ; tall in person and spare — wearing, like every other well-born Lon- doner, the curled, long-bottomed wig of France, and making sentences in exposition of h...is thought which were longer and stiifer than his wigs. I give you a sample. He is discussing the eye, and wants to say that it is wonderfully constructed ; and this is the way he says it : "To be told that an eye is the organ of sight, and that this is performed by that faculty of the mind which, from its function, is called visive, will give a man but a sorry ac- 2o8 LANDS, LETTERS, &- KINGS.
count of the instruments and manner of vision itself, or of the knowledge of that Opificer who, as the Scripture speaks, formed the eye ; and he that can take up with this easy theory of Vision, will not think it necessary to take the pains to dissect the eyes of animals, nor study the books of mathe- maticians to understand Vision ; and accordingly will have but mean thoughts of the contrivance of the Organ, and the skill of the Artificer, in comparison of the ideas that will be suggested of both of them to him, that being profoundly skilled in anatomy and optics, by their help takes asunder the several coats, humors, muscles, of which that exquisite dioptrical instrument consists ; and having separately con- sidered the size, figure, consistence, texture, diaphaneity or opacity, situation, and connection of each of them, and their coaptation in the whole eye, shall discover, by the help of the laws of optics, how admirably this little organ is fitted to receive the incident beams of light and dispose them in the best manner possible for completing the lively representa- tion of the almost infinitely various objects of sight.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Donald G Mitchell to read onlineMoreLess
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