Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"Whence comes that vast store, which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety?"
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them"
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1794
"If our recollection or imagination be not a repetition of animal movements, I ask, in my turn, What is it? You tell me it consists of images or pictures of things. Where is this extensive canvas hung up? or where are the numerous receptacles in which those are deposited? or to what else in the a...
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)