The Five Senses of ManHenry S. King & Company, 1876 - 304 páginas |
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... distinguish our own body and external objects sooner than vision . For the act of touching our body with our hand calls forth a double sensation of touch , one through the hand and the other through the part of the skin touched ; touch ...
... distinguish our own body and external objects sooner than vision . For the act of touching our body with our hand calls forth a double sensation of touch , one through the hand and the other through the part of the skin touched ; touch ...
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... distinguish between the form of a body and its colour , so the sensitiveness of the skin by contact with an object can distinguish many of its properties , its form , its firmness , whether it is hard , soft , or liquid , and its ...
... distinguish between the form of a body and its colour , so the sensitiveness of the skin by contact with an object can distinguish many of its properties , its form , its firmness , whether it is hard , soft , or liquid , and its ...
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... distinguish whether the pain felt by the skin is produced by a burn , or by the corrosion of acids , or by a sharp instrument ; but this takes place only with the aid of the accompanying sensations of the senses - those , namely , of ...
... distinguish whether the pain felt by the skin is produced by a burn , or by the corrosion of acids , or by a sharp instrument ; but this takes place only with the aid of the accompanying sensations of the senses - those , namely , of ...
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... distinguish between touches on the three finger joints most correctly , and can determine the distance of the point touched from the finger - tip with tolerable certainty . Similarly , the sensi- bility of the face and of the forehead ...
... distinguish between touches on the three finger joints most correctly , and can determine the distance of the point touched from the finger - tip with tolerable certainty . Similarly , the sensi- bility of the face and of the forehead ...
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... distinguishes very clearly by what branch such a message has come , and just as a clerk in a telegraph office , where a great number of wires meet from all sides , knows by experi- ence from what direction each wire brings its message ...
... distinguishes very clearly by what branch such a message has come , and just as a clerk in a telegraph office , where a great number of wires meet from all sides , knows by experi- ence from what direction each wire brings its message ...
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action apparatus appear auditory canal auditory nerve basilar membrane binocular vision body brain cause centre Cloth cochlea colours consonance Demy 8vo direction dissonance distance distinctly ear-bones Eustachian tube excitement experience external ear Fcap fenestra ovalis fibres of Corti field of vision finger fixed fundamental tone harmonics Helmholtz Illustrations imagine impression instance instrument International Scientific Series inwards irritation labyrinth labyrinthine fluid lens light manner minor third motion muscles musical nerve-fibres number of vibrations objects observed octave olfactory olfactory nerve optic nerve organs of Corti papillæ peculiar perceive perception picture pitch Poems position possess post 8vo produced rays recognise resonator retina Second Edition seen sensation sense of touch sensitive fields sensory circle sensory organs skin Small crown 8vo smell sound sound-waves stereoscopic string substances suppose surface sympathetic vibrations takes place taste terminal tion tongue tube tuning-fork tympanic cavity tympanic membrane vols waves whilst
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