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... point . Any contact of the point with the plate will cause the bell to ring . In making the experiment the plate is ... regard to time , bodily condition , and position in making the experi- ments being maintained as far as possible ...
... point . Any contact of the point with the plate will cause the bell to ring . In making the experiment the plate is ... regard to time , bodily condition , and position in making the experi- ments being maintained as far as possible ...
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... point . This is the " point of re- gard . " In looking at this dot ○ your point of regard is the dot . As you read onward , your point of regard changes from one letter to another . If you look at a person on the street , the point of ...
... point . This is the " point of re- gard . " In looking at this dot ○ your point of regard is the dot . As you read onward , your point of regard changes from one letter to another . If you look at a person on the street , the point of ...
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... point of regard . In the field of vision there is one place at which nothing is seen ; this is called the blind - spot . With the left eye shut , hold the book at arm's length and look with the right eye at the cross in Fig . 106 The ...
... point of regard . In the field of vision there is one place at which nothing is seen ; this is called the blind - spot . With the left eye shut , hold the book at arm's length and look with the right eye at the cross in Fig . 106 The ...
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... point of regard looking straight forward , draw four apparently equal lines , as indicated in Fig . 112. On measuring them the vertical one above the dot will be found shorter than the vertical one below . Both will be shorter than the ...
... point of regard looking straight forward , draw four apparently equal lines , as indicated in Fig . 112. On measuring them the vertical one above the dot will be found shorter than the vertical one below . Both will be shorter than the ...
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... regard to the letter s and the figure 8 ? Why are they made so ? When the point FIG . 112. - What the Eye Considers to be Equal of regard moves Distances . upward it has a tendency to move outward ; when it moves downward , it moves ...
... regard to the letter s and the figure 8 ? Why are they made so ? When the point FIG . 112. - What the Eye Considers to be Equal of regard moves Distances . upward it has a tendency to move outward ; when it moves downward , it moves ...
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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.