A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . OF THE MANNER OF OVR SIGHT IN GENERALLQHAV. IIIL. M o n g s t the belt Philofophcrs which I haue reade,concerning the reafbn ofour Sight, I findc diuers andfundry opinions. For Plato thinketh it is caufed from that brightnes,whichproceedeth from the eie,whofe light pallingthrough the aire meeteth with that which is reflectedfrom the bodies. Now that light wherwith the ayrcisinlightnedfrom the funne, diffulethand vnto the vertue of the And this is Galens opinion. Wherunto all the Platonick
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . OF THE MANNER OF OVR SIGHT IN GENERALLQHAV. IIIL. M o n g s t the belt Philofophcrs which I haue reade,concerning the reafbn ofour Sight, I findc diuers andfundry opinions. For Plato thinketh it is caufed from that brightnes,whichproceedeth from the eie,whofe light pallingthrough the aire meeteth with that which is reflectedfrom the bodies. Now that light wherwith the ayrcisinlightnedfrom the funne, diffulethand vnto the vertue of the And this is Galens opinion. Wherunto all the Platonickes leanc, who in their commentaries affirme, that the eie fees nothing els,but the light of theSunne. Became the figures of the bodies are neuer feene,but when they areilluftrated by the light, info much as their matter neuer commethtotheeie. This then is their meaning-, that the light of the Sunne,being as it were painted with the colours and figures of all the bodies whereon it falleth,re-prefenteth them to the eie, which by vertue of a certaine naturall facultyit hath, apprehendeth the light of the Sunne thus painte
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