The seat of vision determined : and, by the discovery of a new function in the organ, a foundation laid for explaining its mechanism and the various phenomena, on principles hitherto unattempted / by Andrew Horn.

  • Horn, Andrew.
Date:
1813
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The seat of vision determined : and, by the discovery of a new function in the organ, a foundation laid for explaining its mechanism and the various phenomena, on principles hitherto unattempted / by Andrew Horn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

    24/118 (page 18)
    of the ideal philosophy could be substan- tiated, that kind of distinction which he has formed between visible and tangible objects, would afford a beautiful explica- tion of the problem respecting erect vi- sion, as well as of some other phenomena equally inexplicable. But it will evi- dently appear, in the course of our in- quiry, that the hypothesis of Berkeley, however ingenious, is a sort of illusion in the interpretation of nature, which our ignorance is ever ready to court— one of those hypothetical errors that we never can detect, but by confronting it with experience. Dr. Reid, in his Inquiry into the Hu- man Mind, enters profoundly into the nature of vision. He rejects the hypo- thesis of Berkeley respecting the invert- ed image; and, though he admires the distinction made by the idealist between the immediate and natural objects of sight, and the conclusions we are accus- tomed from infancy to draw from them.