Your search for
Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
AND
Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
,
"Restoration"
,
"Seventeenth Century"
,
"Early Modern"
AND
Politics of Author:
"Whiggish"
returned 1 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1692
"[T]he Explanation whereof is allowed by all men as satisfactory, 'tis this, in Tab. 41. Fig. 2. the Image a b of the Object A B is painted on the Retina inverted, and yet the Eye (or rather the Soul by means of the Eye) sees the Object erect and in its natural Posture."
preview | full record— Molyneux, William (1656-1698)