 | Isaac Newton - 1730 - 382 pages
...abovemention'd ? *and are not thefe Vibrations propagated from the point of Incidence to great diftances ? And do they not overtake the Rays of Light, and by overtaking them fuoeeffively, do they not put them into the Fits of eafy Reflexion and eafy Tranfmiffion defcribed... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1802 - 638 pages
...waves of " vibrations, or tremors, be thereby excited in the refracting or " reflecting medium ? — And are not these vibrations propagated " from the...overtake the rays of light, and by overtaking them suc" cessively, do not they put them into the fits of easy reflection " and easy transmission described... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1802 - 756 pages
...medium ? And are not thefe vibrations propa" gated from the point of incidence to great diftances? And " do they not overtake the rays of light, and by overtaking " them fucceflively, do not they put them into the fits of eafy " refleciion and eafy tranfmiflion defcribed... | |
 | Baden Powell - 1841 - 210 pages
...reflected, may not waves of vibrations or tremors be thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting medium? and are not these vibrations propagated from the point...overtaking them successively, do they not put them into the fits of easy reflexion and easy transmission described above ?" From this and other passages it... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 682 pages
...the refracting or reflecting medium at the point of incidence ? . . . . and do not these vibrations overtake the rays of light, and by overtaking them successively, do they not put them into the fits of easy reflection and easy Optieki, p. 322. transmission described above ?" Several of the... | |
 | Thomas Preston - 1890 - 465 pages
...medium at the point of incidence and continue to arise there, and to be propagated from thence . . . and are not these vibrations propagated from the point...overtaking them successively, do they not put them into the fits of easy reflexion and easy transmission described above ? For if the rays endeavour. to recede... | |
 | Thomas Preston - 1895 - 614 pages
...there, and to be propagated from thence . . . and arc not these vibrations propagated from the ] -ciint of incidence to great distances '! And do they not...overtaking them successively, do they not put them into the fits of easy reflexion and easy transmission described above ? For if the rays endeavour to recede... | |
 | Edwin Edser - 1902 - 606 pages
...medium at the point of incidence and continue to arise there, and to he propagated from thence .... and are not these vibrations propagated from the point...overtaking them successively, do they not put them into the fits of easy reflexion and easy transmission described alxive ? For if the rays endeavour to recede... | |
 | Devendra Náth Mallik - 1917 - 200 pages
...refracted and reflected, may not waves of vibrations or tremors be thereby excited in the reflecting medium and do they not overtake the rays of light and, by...into Fits of easy reflexion and easy transmission*?" As a further explanation, he suggests (Q. 26) that rays of light may have several sides—four sides... | |
 | Joseph John Thomson - 1925 - 70 pages
...vibrations be excited at the point of incidence and continue to arise there and be propagated thence and do they not overtake the rays of light and by overtaking them successively put them into fits of easy reflection and transmission?" He supposed the corpuscles corresponding to... | |
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And are not these vibrations propagated from the point of incidence to great distances? And do they not overtake the rays of light, and by overtaking them successively do they not put them into the fits of easy reflection and easy transmission described... 
