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" We have also perspective houses, where we make demonstrations of all lights and radiations ; and of all colours; and out of things uncoloured and transparent, we can represent unto you all several colours: not in rainbows, as it is in gems and prisms,... "
Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New ... - Page 208
edited by - 1886 - 284 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Miscellaneous writings in philosophy, morality ...

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 292 pages
...requireth. We have also perspective houses, where we make demonstrations of all lights and radiations ; and of all colours ; and out of things uncoloured...prisms,) but of themselves single. We represent also multiplications of light, which we carry to great distance ; and make so sharp, as to discern small...
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The works of Francis Bacon, Volume 2

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
..." We have also perspective houses, where we " make demonstrations of all lights and radiations ; " and of all colours ; and out of things uncoloured...as to discern " small points and lines : also all colorations of light : " all delusions and deceits of the sight, in figures, " magnitudes, motions,...
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Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains ...

Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pages
...also perspective houses, where we •• make demonstrations of all lights and radiations ; " ftad of all colours ; and out of things uncoloured " and...as to discern " small points and lines : also all colorations of light : •• all delusions and deceits of the sight, in figures, " magnitudes, motions,...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 3

1821 - 400 pages
...says, " We have also perspective houses, where we make demonstrations of all lights and radiations ; and of all colours ; and out of things uncoloured...prisms,) but of themselves single. We represent also multiplications of light, which we carry to great distance ; and make so sharp, as to discern small...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 3

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...says, " We have also perspective houses, where we make demonstrations of all lights and radiations ; and of all colours ; and out of things uncoloured...prisms,) but of themselves single. We represent also multiplications of light, which we carry to great distance ; and make so sharp, as to discern small...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 3

1821 - 398 pages
...says, " We have also perspective houses, where we make demonstrations of all lights and radiations ; and of all colours ; and out of things uncoloured...prisms,) but of themselves single. We represent also multiplications of light, which we carry to great distance ; and make so sharp, as to discern small...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 3

Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...says, " We have also perspective houses, where we make demonstrations of all lights and radiations ; and of all colours ; and out of things uncoloured...in rain-bows, (as it is in gems and prisms,) but of themselve's single. We represent also multiplications of light, which we carry to great distance ;...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans ..., Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1824 - 598 pages
...; and out of things uncoloured and tran" sparent, we can represent unto you all several co" lours: not in rainbows, as it is in gems and prisms, " but...sharp, as to discern small " points and lines: also all colorations of light: all " delusions and deceits of the sight, in figures, mag" nitudes, motions,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
..." We have also perspective houses, where we " make demonstrations of all lights and radiations ; " and of all colours ; and out of things uncoloured...represent unto you all " several colours ; not in rain bows, as it is in gems " and prisms, but of themselves single. We repre" sent also all multiplications...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 17

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 816 pages
...plane. . We have pert]>eciirt houses,- where we make demonstrations of all lights and radiations ; and out of things uncoloured and transparent, we can represent unto you all separate colours. Bacnn. If it tend to danger, they turn about the perspective and show it so little,...
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