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... ideas was , in a sense , waiting to be thought . . . . Shake- speare may have known less about dioptrics than Descartes , but this would not have made him less quick to see the implications of an idea " ( Gent 421 ) . Admittedly , the ...
... ideas was , in a sense , waiting to be thought . . . . Shake- speare may have known less about dioptrics than Descartes , but this would not have made him less quick to see the implications of an idea " ( Gent 421 ) . Admittedly , the ...
Page 148
... idea of an active emanation proved more or less untenable . The severance of passive physical processes and the act of mental apprehension thus spells the doom of the speculative conception of sight and its assumptions about likeness ...
... idea of an active emanation proved more or less untenable . The severance of passive physical processes and the act of mental apprehension thus spells the doom of the speculative conception of sight and its assumptions about likeness ...
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... idea expressed here is so bizarre in itself that we are not very likely to find alternative sources for it , the connection between Webster and Paracelsus is cemented in the fifth act of the same play . When the Doctor proposes a cure ...
... idea expressed here is so bizarre in itself that we are not very likely to find alternative sources for it , the connection between Webster and Paracelsus is cemented in the fifth act of the same play . When the Doctor proposes a cure ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
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