 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1869 - 488 pages
...perception of different impressions. We do not see with the ear, nor hear with the eye, nor are wo rendered sensible of sound by the nerves of the tongue....class, it is singularly obtuse to other impressions. Nor.does the optic nerve embrace the entire range even of radiation. Some rays, when they reach it,... | |
 | Science - 1869 - 486 pages
...impressions. We do not see with the ear, nor hear with the eye, nor are we rendered sensible of sound bv the nerves of the tongue. Out of the general assemblage...brain to the back of the eye-ball and there spreads ont, to form the retina, a web of nerve filaments, on which the images of external objects are projected... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1875 - 470 pages
...Invisible Radiation. BETWEEN the mind of man and the outer world are interposed the nerves of the human body, which translate, or enable the mind to translate,...impressions of this class, it is singularly obtuse tc other impressions. Nor does the optic nerve embrace the entire range even of radiation. Some rays,... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1879 - 522 pages
...group of nerves, selects and responds to those for the perception of which it is specially organised. The optic nerve passes from the brain to the back...class, it is singularly obtuse to other impressions. 1 The Rede Lecture delivered in the Senate House before the University of Cambridge, May 16, 1865.... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1888 - 342 pages
...applauded. 10. All forms of the lever and all the principal kinds of hinges are found in the body. 11. The optic nerve passes from the brain to the back of the eyeball, and there spreads out. 12. From the Mount of Olives, the Dead Sea, dark and misty and solemn, is seen. pnmerx Explanation.... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1892 - 482 pages
...group of nerves, selects and responds to those for the perception of which it is specially organised. The optic nerve passes from the brain to the back...class, it is singularly obtuse to other impressions. 1 The Rede Lecture delivered in the Senate House before the University of Cambridge, May 16, 18G5.... | |
 | John Tyndall - Ciencia - 1896 - 478 pages
...group of nerves, selects and responds to those for the perception of which it is specially organised. The optic nerve passes from the brain to the back...eyeball and there spreads out, to form the retina, a vreb of nerve filaments, on which the images of external objects are projected by the optical portion... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1897 - 448 pages
...group of nerves, selects and responds to those for the perception of which it is specially organised. The optic nerve passes from the brain to the back...class, it is singularly obtuse to other impressions. 1 The Rede Lecture delivered in the Senate House before the University of Cambridge, May 16, 1865.... | |
 | Huber Gray Buehler - English language - 1900 - 308 pages
...fills And dances with the daffodils. 10. Only the foolish and the dead never change their opinions. ir. The optic nerve passes from the brain to the back of the eyeball, and there spreads out. 12. The horses and the cattle were fastened in the same stables and were fed at the same time. 13.... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1897 - 318 pages
...modified by the two phrases, from a strange land and of a strange parentage. 43 — 5. The optic ucrve passes from the brain to the back of the eyeball, and there spreads out. Of the eyeball modifies back. Spreads is modified by there and out, Passes and spreads is the compound... | |
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The optic nerve passes from the brain to the back of the eyeball and there spreads out, to form the retina, a web of nerve filaments, on which the images of external objects are projected by the optical portion of the eye. This nerve is limited to the... 
