 | George Adams - 1794 - 604 pages
...TRANSIENT STATE INTO WHICH A RAY OF* LIGHT is PUT, IN IT'S PASSAGE THROUGH ANY REFRACTING SURFACE, WHICH, IN THE PROGRESS OF THE RAY, RETURNS AT EQUAL...INTERVALS ; AND DISPOSES THE RAY, AT EVERY RETURN, TO BE TRANSMITTED, AND 1ETWEEN THE RETURNS, TO BE REFLECTED TO IT. In order to account for the intervals... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 700 pages
...some are reflected, others pass through and are refracted ? the answer given by Newton is as follows : Every ray of light, in its passage through any refracting...next refracting surface, and between the returns to bacasily reflected by it : which alteration of reflection and transmission, it appears, it propagated... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...given by Newton is as follows : Every ray of light, in its passage through any refracting surface, и put into a certain transient constitution or state,...next refracting surface, and between the returns to bf easily reflected by it : which alteration of reflection and transmission, it appears, is propagated... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...examination of their cause. This he supposes to be that every ray, in its passage through a retracting' surface, is put into a certain transient constitution...ray at every return to be easily transmitted through Ili3 next refracting 1 surface, (of an infinite number of which surfaces bo considers the medium to... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 408 pages
...through and arf refracted ? the answer given by Ne^ tot is as follows : Every ray of light, in it-« passage through any refracting surface, is put into...progress of the ray returns at equal intervals, and dispose? the ray at every return to be easily transmitted through the next refracting surface, and... | |
 | William Enfield (M.A.) - 1821 - 302 pages
...supposes, that every ray of light in its passage through any refracting surface is put into a certain constitution or state, which in the progress of the...and disposes the ray at every return to be easily tiansmitted through the next refracting surface, and between the returns to be easily reflected by... | |
 | 1832 - 642 pages
...ray of light, in its passage through the surface which separates two media of different densities, is put into a certain transient constitution or state,...which, in the progress of the ray, returns at equal intervais, and disposes the ray at every return to be easily transmitted through the next refracting... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 pages
...cause of colours; to which, however, we must here advert only briefly. He has irrefragably proved, that every ray of light, in its passage through any refracting...returns at equal intervals ; and disposes the ray «< every return to be transmitted, and between the returns to be reflected by it. Hence, he assigns... | |
 | Thomas Preston - 1890 - 494 pages
...for new ones to be invented " (Birch, vol. iii. p. 249, December 1675). Opt id's, book ii. part iii. prop. xii. : " Every ray of light in its passage through...and disposes the ray at every return to be easily refracted through the next refracting surface, and between the returns to be easily reflected by it.... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1894 - 1272 pages
...in time, and spends about seven or eight minutes of an hour in passing from the sun to the earth. ' Every ray of light in its passage through any refracting...returns at equal intervals, and disposes the ray at each return to be easily transmitted through the next refracting surface, and between the returns to... | |
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... every ray of light in its passage through any refracting surface is put into a certain transient constitution or state, which in the progress of the ray returns at equal intervals and disposes the ray at every return to be easily refracted through... 
