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1842 A Review of Berkeley's Theory of Vision / Samuel Bailey / Eye / Sight
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A Review of Berkeley's Theory of Vision:
Designed To Show The Unsoundness of that Celebrated Speculation.
By Samuel Bailey.
Published by James Ridgway, London, 1842. Hardback book, green cloth with gilt title to spine, 239pp.
Good condition - ex library with usual stickers to front endpaper, two ink libray stamps to title page and one to the rear endpaper but no others. Pages good throughout. A good ex-library copy.
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The doctrine contained in an Essay towards a new Theory of Vision which was first published in 1709 by the celebrated Bishop of Cloyne, seems to have become the established creed of philosophers almost from the moment of its appearance. In the last century. Hartley, Reid, Adam Smith, Condillac, Voltaire, Dugald Stewart (not to mention less eminent authors), all in succession adopted, extolled, and enforced it; and a further proof of its extensive prevalence is furnished by the sanction more or less explicit, which it met with from such writers as Diderot, Buffon, and DAlembert. To show the high estimation in which Berkeley's theory has been generally held, it is only necessary to quote the words of two of the eminent metaphysicians just named.
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