Color-blindness and color-perception / by Swan M. Burnett.
- Swan Moses Burnett
- Date:
- 1882
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Color-blindness and color-perception / by Swan M. Burnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![highest place. Its us> at close quarters. Tpjn charged by a coward implied the personal coj e arrow might slay at The spear, again, if 1] age of the individual distance, and be dis- g enough and deftly y 37 38 ILOPMKNT OF THE SWOKD ASIOUG 40 41 held, could kill without risk to the holder thei were similarly armed. But the sword meant the victory was not always to the strong might and governai: 3e, for it implies both tjh execute the behests pf its holder. It is one ity, because it is th^ eof, unless the adversary personal conflict, where rightly it is the sign of e will and the power to the insignia of author- sign of courage and si ON THE DIFFUSION OF/ODOES. T HE following seen going tj By E. C. EUTHERFOI rragraph is similar tc |e rounds of the pape /others I have occasionally for the last twenty-five or thirty years : It is said that a chamber twelve fee' volume or its weight each cubic inch con billions of tenths o, each such cubic ten] the particles of tbej times. Imaginati rain of musk is capabl square without sustain But such a chamber c 'ins 1,000 cubic tenths o an inch. Now, it is p: of an inch of the air oj usk, and that this air recoils before comput, 'of perfuming for several years a g any sensible diminution of its tains 2,985,984 cubic inches, and nches, making in all nearly three able, indeed almost certain, that the room contains one or more of been changed many thousands of 'on of the number of the particles thus diffused and and magnitude. upended. Yet have tliei Voseley's Illustrations of l fall together no appreciable weight Science.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22399392_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
