The Dark Lantern: A Historical Study of Sight in Shakespeare, Webster, and Middleton |
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... active and spiritual substance with the atomistic doctrine of passive matter . Fire must , he feels , be an active substance , and since there is " no other way ... excogitable for salving the force or .. . activity of fire but that of ...
... active and spiritual substance with the atomistic doctrine of passive matter . Fire must , he feels , be an active substance , and since there is " no other way ... excogitable for salving the force or .. . activity of fire but that of ...
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... active power of emanation from the eye was geared to a relocation of the active capacity to see within the mind as a separable object of philosophical inquiry . Even in the late sixteenth century , as Pierre le Loyer informed us in the ...
... active power of emanation from the eye was geared to a relocation of the active capacity to see within the mind as a separable object of philosophical inquiry . Even in the late sixteenth century , as Pierre le Loyer informed us in the ...
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... active eye could also serve pious purposes . The optical extinction of the light inside the eye would clearly rhyme admirably with the religious concern expounded in the anonymous H. C.'s epigram to the Works ( 1599 ) of Richard ...
... active eye could also serve pious purposes . The optical extinction of the light inside the eye would clearly rhyme admirably with the religious concern expounded in the anonymous H. C.'s epigram to the Works ( 1599 ) of Richard ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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