THE OBJECTIVE LIGHT DOES NOT TRANSMIT THE IMAGE BY RELAYS.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
The hypothesis that the light contiguous to the visible object is affected, and transmits this affection by relays from point to point into the eye, is essentially identical with that theory which supposes that the medium must be preliminarily modified by the visible object; a hypothesis that has already been discussed above.