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... Combined 167 140 . Prometheus 168 • • 141. The H. 168 • 142. Crossed Disparity 143. Uncrossed Disparity 169 169 • • 144. What we would Expect when Looking at the Farther End . 170 • • 145. What we would Expect when Looking at the Nearer ...
... Combined 167 140 . Prometheus 168 • • 141. The H. 168 • 142. Crossed Disparity 143. Uncrossed Disparity 169 169 • • 144. What we would Expect when Looking at the Farther End . 170 • • 145. What we would Expect when Looking at the Nearer ...
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... combined can be obtained from a group of persons without any other apparatus than a watch . The persons of the group stand in a ring , as shown in Fig . 15 , each with his hand on his neighbour's head . In the first place , the simple ...
... combined can be obtained from a group of persons without any other apparatus than a watch . The persons of the group stand in a ring , as shown in Fig . 15 , each with his hand on his neighbour's head . In the first place , the simple ...
Page 95
... combination , but alternately either rose or water - lily . We can smell either one in preference to the other by simply thinking about it ( compare p . 21 ) . It FIG . 74. - Alternation of Odours ; or the Strife of the Two Nostrils ...
... combination , but alternately either rose or water - lily . We can smell either one in preference to the other by simply thinking about it ( compare p . 21 ) . It FIG . 74. - Alternation of Odours ; or the Strife of the Two Nostrils ...
Page 97
... combination of sour and bitter . Through unpardonable stupidity pepper is always served ground and consequently odourless , the ... combined produce a result that is neither sweet nor sour , but differs from either while resembling both ...
... combination of sour and bitter . Through unpardonable stupidity pepper is always served ground and consequently odourless , the ... combined produce a result that is neither sweet nor sour , but differs from either while resembling both ...
Page 126
... combined by disks or spectrum colours . The result is the same as if two had been first combined and then the third added . The position in the colour diagram of Fig . 86 is worked out in the same way . By using three spectrum colours ...
... combined by disks or spectrum colours . The result is the same as if two had been first combined and then the third added . The position in the colour diagram of Fig . 86 is worked out in the same way . By using three spectrum colours ...
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Page 181 - ... probably never in all their lives received one genuine colour-sensation. The modern religionists of the school of Overbeck are just like people who eat slate-pencil and chalk, and assure everybody that they are nicer and purer than strawberries and plums.
Page 5 - I have noticed in one of my formicaria a subterranean cemetery, where I have seen some ants burying their dead by placing earth above them. One ant was evidently much affected, and tried to exhume the bodies, but the united exertions of the yellow sextons were more than sufficient to neutralise the effort of the disconsolate mourner.