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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S12
Section 851 of 1,114
Canonical reference B4.C2.S12
English
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Whether then they be globules or no; or whether they have a verticity about their own centres that produces the idea of whiteness in us; this is certain, that the more particles of light are reflected from a body, fitted to give them that peculiar motion which produces the sensation of whiteness in us; and possibly too, the quicker that peculiar motion is,--the whiter does the body appear from which the greatest number are reflected, as is evident in the same piece of paper put in the sunbeams, in the shade, and in a dark hole; in each of which it will produce in us the idea of whiteness in far different degrees.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Ainſi, qu’il y ait des globules, ou non, & que ces globules par un certain pirouëttement autour de leur propre centre, produiſent en nous l’idée de la Blancheur ; ce qu’il y a de certain, c’eſt que plus il y a de particules de lumiére reflêchies d’un Corps diſpoſé à leur donner ce mouvement particulier qui produit la ſenſation de Blancheur en nous ; & peut-être auſſi, plus ce mouvement particulier eſt prompt, plus le Corps d’où le plus grand nombre de globules eſt refléchi, paroit blanc, comme on le voit évidemment dans une feuille de papier qu’on met aux rayons du Soleil, à l’ombre, ou dans un trou obſcur ; trois différens endroits où ce Papier produira en nous l’idée de trois dégrez de blancheur fort différens.
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