| Isaac Newton - 1730 - 403 pages
...very fmall Bodies emitted from mining Subftances? For fuch Bodies will pafs through uniform Mediums in right Lines without bending into the Shadow, which is the Nature of the Rays of Light. They will alfo be capable of feveral Properties, and be able to conferve their Pro.perties unchanged... | |
| Sir Humphry Davy - 1812 - 352 pages
...very small bodies emitted from shining substances ? For such bodies will pass through uniform mediums in right lines, without bending into the shadow, which is the nature of the rays of light. They will also be capable of several properties, and be able to conserve their properties Unchanged,... | |
| Thomas Preston - 1890 - 494 pages
...very small bodies emitted from shining substances ? For such bodies will pass through uniform mediums in right lines without bending into the shadow, which is the nature of the rays of light" (Newton, Opticks, book iii. Qu. 29). - "The experiments of Mr. Benuet seem to decide this point. A... | |
| James Powell Cocke Southall - 1910 - 660 pages
...very small bodies emitted from shining substances? For such bodies will pass through uniform mediums in right lines without bending into the shadow, which is the nature of the rays of light." Opposed to this view was the Undulatory Theory of Light, which, notwithstanding the speculations that... | |
| Sir Oliver Lodge - 1910 - 184 pages
...very small Bodies emitted from shining Substances ? For such Bodies will pass through uniform Mediums in right Lines without bending into the Shadow, which is the Nature of the Rays of Light. . . . Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they... | |
| oliver lodge - 1910 - 206 pages
...very small Bodies emitted from shining Substances? For such Bodies will pass through uniform Mediums in right Lines without bending into the Shadow, which is the Nature of the Bays of Light. . . . Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, "Virtues, or Forces,... | |
| Sir Oliver Lodge - 1910 - 188 pages
...very small Bodies emitted from shining Substances f For such Bodies will pass through uniform Mediums in right Lines without •bending into the Shadow, which is the Nature of the Bays of Light. . . . Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces,... | |
| Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 pages
...very small bodies emitted from shining substances ? For such bodies will pass through uniform mediums in right lines without bending into the shadow, which is the nature of the rays of light. They will also be capable of several properties and be able to conserve their properties unchanged... | |
| Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1923 - 286 pages
...advanced) it should have been as easy to see round a corner as to hear round a corner. Hence Newton wrote " Are not the rays of light very small bodies emitted...shadow, which is the nature of the rays of light." In order to account for the various phenomena of reflection, refraction, interference, colour, Newton... | |
| 1922 - 486 pages
...very small Bodies emitted from shining Substances? For such Bodies will pass through uniform Mediums in right Lines without bending into the Shadow, which is the Nature of the Rays of Light. They will also be capable of several Properties, and be able to conserve their Properties unchanged... | |
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