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Date: Read 1680-1681, published 1705
"But of this, and the manner of contracting of the Pupil, more, when I come to explain that part of the Eye; that which intention it for at present is, only to explain how the Eye becomes as it were a Hand, by which the Brain feels, and touches (the Objects, by creating a Motion in the Retina, th...
preview | full record— Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
Date: Read 1680-1681, published 1705
"Memory then conceive to be nothing else but a Repository of Ideas formed partly by the Senses, but chiefly by the Soul it self: I say, partly by the Senses, because they are as it were the Collectors or Carriers of the Impressions made by Objects from without, delivering them to the Repository o...
preview | full record— Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
