AERIAL

AERIAL, AERIUS, something that consists of Air, or has a relation or resemblance to Air. See AIR.

The Essenes, the most refined and rational Sect among the Jews, held that the human Soul consisted of an aerial Matter. See ESSENES.

Angels or Spirits, whether Good or Evil, said sometimes to appear, are supposed to assume an aerial Body, in order to come sensibly. See ANGEL.



Porphyry and Iamblichus admit a sort of Demons or aerial Spirits, to which they give various Names. See DEMON, GENIUS, etc.

The Rosicrucians, and other Visionaries, fill the Atmosphere with aerial Inhabitants. See ROSICRUCIAN, SIREN, GNOME, etc.

Aerial Perspective, is that which represents Bodies weakened and diminished, in proportion to their distance from the Eye. See PERSPECTIVE.

Aerial Perspective, has chiefly to do with the Colours of Objects, whose force and lustre it takes off more or less, to make them appear as if more or less remote. See COLOUR, and CHIAROSCURO. It is founded on this, that the longer Column of Air an Object is seen through, the weaker do the visual Rays emitted from it affect the Eye. See VISION.

AERIAL