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Pagina 26
... effect of Candle - light so different from the purer light of Day , that they are obliged to use Spectacles by night , though they can do very well without them in the day . These , when the eye has become more flat , will find it ...
... effect of Candle - light so different from the purer light of Day , that they are obliged to use Spectacles by night , though they can do very well without them in the day . These , when the eye has become more flat , will find it ...
Pagina 61
... effect of a strong Light * I have seen evidenced by the fact that Persons who have many years used Spectacles , when the Sun shines on their Book , can see without . I believe , that the main Reason why the Sight * " A person who has ...
... effect of a strong Light * I have seen evidenced by the fact that Persons who have many years used Spectacles , when the Sun shines on their Book , can see without . I believe , that the main Reason why the Sight * " A person who has ...
Pagina 62
... effect on my Eye , as to awaken me out of a sound Sleep . I read the above neer , and he said - to Mr. BUNDY the Engi- " The very same thing happens to me - I always awake just before my Night Lamp goes quite out . " The best Light for ...
... effect on my Eye , as to awaken me out of a sound Sleep . I read the above neer , and he said - to Mr. BUNDY the Engi- " The very same thing happens to me - I always awake just before my Night Lamp goes quite out . " The best Light for ...
Pagina 67
... effect of variously con- structed Magnifiers , for shewing the Division in the Ring of Saturn , and for separating some of the faintest and closest Double Stars - my Eye became so extremely tired that the sharp- ness of my Sight was so ...
... effect of variously con- structed Magnifiers , for shewing the Division in the Ring of Saturn , and for separating some of the faintest and closest Double Stars - my Eye became so extremely tired that the sharp- ness of my Sight was so ...
Pagina 76
... Effect of Engraving , & c . to wear Spectacles of 9 inches focus with which I think that Artists might work longer than with only one Eye . The Compound Magnifiers , which are com- posed of two plano - convexes with their plane sides ...
... Effect of Engraving , & c . to wear Spectacles of 9 inches focus with which I think that Artists might work longer than with only one Eye . The Compound Magnifiers , which are com- posed of two plano - convexes with their plane sides ...
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The Economy of the Eyes: Precepts for the Improvement and ..., Partea 1 William Kitchiner Vizualizare completă - 1824 |
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30 inches focus Achromatic Telescope ADAMS on Vision adjust aperture appear Artists assistance become bright Candlelight centre CHAPTER CHARLES BLAGDEN Colour Common Eye concave glass Convex Glasses COOK'S ORACLE degree distance distant objects distinct vision distinctly Dollond Double Stars DRURY LANE THEATRE Ears enable Engraving exactly extremely Eye Glasses Eye-glass Eye-lids fatigued feet field of view focal length give HERSCHEL inch in diameter inches aperture increased injurious Instrument JESSE RAMSDEN Lamp larger less Light look Magnifying power naked Eye Near-sighted Newtonian nifying power Night observed Opera Glass Optician pair of Spectacles Pancratic Eye-tube pencil of rays perfectly Peter Dollond Phil Plate proper proportion Pupil Reader require retina save the King seen seldom Senses sensibility shew Short-sighted Persons Sight Single Object-glass sliding tubes soon Spec Specta Spectacle frame Spectacle Glasses tacles Tele Theatre tion Trans WILLIAM KITCHINER
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Pagina 21 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Pagina 205 - Prescrib'd her heights, and prun'd her tender wing, (Her guide now lost) no more attempts to rise, But in low numbers short excursions tries: Content, if hence, th...
Pagina 199 - And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence; Some positive persisting fops we know, Who if once wrong will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
Pagina 107 - A man of sense sees, hears and retains everything that passes where he is. I desire I may never hear you talk of not minding, nor complain, as most fools do, of a treacherous memory. Mind not only what people say, but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently discover what their words are calculated to conceal.
Pagina 28 - ... eye than you have been accustomed to do, and desire the aid of plenty of light ; and on looking at a near object, it becomes confused, and appears to have a kind of mist before it, and the letters of a book run one into another, or appear double, &c. ; and BY CANDLELIGHT you catch yourself holding a book &c. close behind the candle.
Pagina 100 - The fact is this, that he does not know a shortsighted person, who has had occasion to increase the depth of his glasses, if he began to use them in the form of spectacles ; whereas he can recollect several instances, where those have been obliged to change their concave glasses repeatedly, for others of higher powers, who had been accustomed to apply them to one eye only.
Pagina 16 - When persons who have long patronized One Eye, and slighted the Other, take to Spectacles, they will (generally) require Glasses of a different focus for each Eye. When You go to an Optician's to choose Spectacles, the first thing to attend to, is to look at a Book with each eye alternately, — and carefully ascertain, if You see equally well, with both Eyes, with the same Glass, at exactly the same distance.
Pagina 130 - Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others...