href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@4722@[email protected]#sect038" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Lines and angles, why useful in optics   39   The not understanding this, a cause of mistake   40   A query proposed, by Mr. Molyneux in his DIOPTRICS, considered   41   One born blind would not at first have any IDEA of distance by sight   42   This not agreeable to the common principles   43   The proper objects of sight, not without the mind, nor the images of any thing without the mind   44   This more fully explained   45   In what sense we must be understood to see distance and external things   46   Distance, and things placed at a distance, not otherwise perceived by the eye than by the ear   47   The IDEAS of sight more apt to be confounded with the IDEAS of touch than those of hearing are   48   How this comes to pass   49   Strictly speaking, we never see and feel the same thing   50   Objects of SIGHT twofold, mediate and immediate   51   These hard to separate in our thoughts   52   The received accounts of our perceiving magnitude by sight, false   53   Magnitude perceived as immediately as distance   54   Two kinds of sensible extension, neither of which is infinitely divisible   55   The tangible magnitude of an OBJECT steady, the visible not   56   By what means tangible magnitude is perceived by sight   57   This further enlarged on   58   No necessary connection between confusion or faintness of appearance, and small or great magnitude   59   The tangible magnitude of an OBJECT more heeded than the visible, and why   60   An instance of this   61   Men do not measure by visible feet or inches   62   No necessary connection between visible and tangible extension   63   Greater visible magnitude might signify lesser tangible magnitude   64   The judgments we make of magnitude depend altogether on experience   65   Distance and magnitude seen as shame or anger   66   But we are prone to think otherwise, and why   67   The moon seems greater in the horizon than in the meridian   68   The cause of this phenomenon assigned   69   The horizontal moon, why greater at one time than another.   70   The account we have given proved to be true   71   And confirmed by the moon's appearing greater in a mist   72   Objection answered   73   The way wherein faintness suggests greater magnitude illustrated   74   Appearance of the horizontal moon, why thought difficult to explain   75   Attempts towards the solution of it made by several, but in vain   76   public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@4722@[email protected]#sect076"