1665,Thomas Bartholin, chapter VI, in anonymous translator,Bartholinus Anatomy, London: Nich. Culpeper and Abdiah Cole, translation ofAnatomia (in New Latin),page142:
The Species of things are perceived rather there whereto they are carried. But everyſenſory Nerve each in its place carries the Species to the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow, and therefore each in their place are judged and received by the Soul, in the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow.
1873,Alpheus Spring Packard, “Hints on the Ancestry of Insects”, inOur Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses, Salem: Naturalists’ Agency,page174:
It is evident that in the ancestor of these two groups the first pair of appendages became early adapted for purelysensory purposes, and were naturally projected far in advance of the mouth, forming the antennæ.
1991, Tetsuo Matsui, Susumu Kato, Susan E. Smith, “Biology and Potential Use of Pacific Grenadier,Coryphaenoides acrolepis, off California”, inMarine Fisheries Review[1], volume52, number 3,→ISSN, page13:
Findings of thesensory analysis panel at NWFSC [theNorthwest Fisheries Science Center], which tested and classified flesh characteristics of both Pacific and giant grenadier, are averaged and summarized in Table 10.
Is not theSenſory of Animals that place to which the ſenſitive Subſtance is preſent, and into which the ſenſible Species of Things are carried through the Nerves and Brain, that there they may be perceived by their immediate preſence to that ſubſtance ?
a.1626,Francis Bacon, “Consent of Visibles, and Audibles”, inSylva Sylvarvm: Or, A Naturall Historie, 3rd edition, London: William Rawley, published1631,page68:
BOth of themſpread themſelues in Round, and fill a whole Floare or Orbe, vnto certaine Limits : and are carried a great way : And doe languiſh and leſſen by degrees, according to the Diſtance of the Obiects from theSenſories.
1689–90,John Evelyn, edited by William Bray,Memoirs of John Evelyn, new edition, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, published1827,page292:
Dr. Burnet, late Bishop of Sarum, on 4 Heb. v. 13, anatomically describing the texture of the eye[…]so God who made thissensorie, did with the greatest ease and at once see all that was don thro’ the vast universe, even to the very thought as well as action.
