| 1836 - 1184 Seiten
...the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. 4 Regarding light itself also, we learn, from the resemblance of these most ancient...faculty of vision were first placed at the bottom of the primeval seas, as at the present moment. ' Thus we find among the earliest organic remains an optical... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 Seiten
...the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. ' Regarding light itself also, we learn, from the resemblance of these most ancient...faculty of vision were first placed at the bottom of the primeval seas, as at the present moment. ' Thus we find among the earliest organic remains an optical... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 Seiten
...the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. ' Regarding light itself also, we learn, from the resemblance of these most ancient...faculty of vision were first placed at the bottom of the primeval seas, as at the present moment. * Thus we find among the earliest organic remains an optical... | |
| 1837 - 608 Seiten
...deep, could not have differed materially from its present condition. 'The mutual re' lations, too, of light to the eye, and of the eye to light, were...of vision, were first placed at the bottom of the primeval ' seas, as at the present moment.' The sections ou fossil spiders, scorpions, insects, and... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 388 Seiten
...adaptations were the same as those which now impart the perception of light to the living crustacea. The mutual relations of light to the eye, and of the eye to light, were, therefore, the same at the time when crustacea first existed in the bottom of the primeval seas, as... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 828 Seiten
...we learn, from the resemblance of these mosi ancient organisations to existing eyes, that the mutua relations of Light to the Eye, and of the Eye to Light were the same at the time when crustaceans endowec with the faculty of vision were placed at the bottom о the primeval seas, as at the present... | |
| Richard Owen - 1843 - 440 Seiten
..." Regarding light itself, also, we learn, from the resemblance of these most ancient organisations to existing eyes, that the mutual relations of light...of vision, were first placed at the bottom of the primeval seas, as at the present moment. " Thus we find among the earliest organic remains, an optical... | |
| David Page - 1844 - 232 Seiten
...received. Regarding light itself also, we learn, from the resemblance of these most ancient organisations to existing eyes, that the mutual relations of light...crustaceans endowed with the faculty of vision were placed at the bottom of the primeval seas, as at the present moment." 164. The animals of this early... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 Seiten
...countless ages ago, the condition of the atmosphere and of the waters of the sea, with the adaptation of light to the eye, and of the eye to light, were much the same as at the present era. " With respect to the waters," says Dr. Buckland, in his luminous... | |
| David Page - 1849 - 372 Seiten
...in the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. Regarding light itself also, we learn, from the resemblance of these most ancient...crustaceans endowed with the faculty of vision were placed at the bottom of the primeval seas, as at the present moment." lf>4. The animals of this early... | |
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