 If we pass suddenly from the one state to the other, even without supposing these to be the extremes, but only, perhaps, a change from bright to dusky, the difference is remarkable, and we find that the effects last for some time. 10. In passing from...  Goethe's Theory of Colours - Page 1by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1840 - 423 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1840 - 494 pages
...object is so generally understood and adopted, that it is hardly necessary to explain that the subject is the individual, in this case the beholder ; the...minutes. 11. The fact that the eye is not susceptible to faint impressions of light, if we pass from light to comparative darkness, has led to curious mistakes... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake - Color - 1840 - 486 pages
...is wanting by means of which it is connected with the external world, and becomes part of a whole. If we look on a white, strongly illumined surface,...minutes. 11. The fact that the eye is not susceptible to faint 11 2 impressions of light, if we pass from light to comparative darkness, has led to curious... | |
 | Angelo Mosso - Fatigue - 1904 - 366 pages
...them I still saw a luminous spot. Goethe has likewise pointed out the effect of debility upon vision : "In passing from bright daylight to a dusky place...while the latter may require seven or eight minutes." This observation of Goethe's as to the longer duration of fatigue phenomena in enfeebled persons is... | |
 | Angelo Mosso - Attention - 1904 - 362 pages
...I still saw a luminous spot. Goethe has likewise pointed out the effect of debility upon vision : " In passing' from bright daylight to a dusky place...while the latter may require seven or eight minutes." This observation of Goethe's as to the longer duration of fatigue phenomena in enfeebled persons is... | |
 | Josephine Goldmark, Frederic Schiller Lee - Fatigue - 1912 - 924 pages
...diminishes in size. (Pages 229-230.) Goethe has likewise pointed out the effect of debility upon vision: "In passing from bright daylight to a dusky place...while the latter may require seven or eight minutes." This observation of Goethe's as to longer duration of fatigue phenomena in enfeebled persons is of... | |
 | Felix Frankfurter, Josephine Goldmark - Eight-hour movement - 1915 - 1090 pages
...diminishes in size. (Pp. 229-230.) Goethe has likewise pointed out the effect of debility upon vision: "In passing from bright daylight to a dusky place...while the latter may require seven or eight minutes." This observation of. Goethe's as to longer duration of fatigue phenomena in enfeebled persons is of... | |
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