| Denison Olmsted - 1832 - 378 pages
...different colors possessing the same degree of refrangibility. Difference of color is therefore not a test of difference of refrangibility ; and the conclusion...same degree of refrangibility ever belongs the same color, and to the same color ever belongs the same degree of refrangibility." By absorbing the excess... | |
| David Brewster, Alexander Dallas Bache - 1833 - 674 pages
...different colors possessing the same degree of refrangibility. Difference of color is therefore not a test of difference of refrangibility, and the conclusion...as a general truth : " That to the same degree of rofrangibility ever belongs the same color, and to the same color ever belongs the same degree of refrangibility."... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 pages
...colours possessing the same degree of refrangibility. Difference of colour, therefore, is not a test of difference of refrangibility, and the conclusion...Newton is no longer admissible as a general truth. By this analysis of the spectrum, not only with blue glass but with a variety of coloured media, Sir... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...colors possessing the same degree of refrangibility. Difference of color, therefore, is not a test of difference of refrangibility, and the conclusion...Newton is no longer admissible as a general truth. By this analysis of the spectrum, not only with blue glass but with a variety of colored media, Sir... | |
| Denison Olmsted - 1835 - 374 pages
...difj'erent colors possessing the same degree of refrangibility. Difference of color is therefore not a test of difference of refrangibility ; and the conclusion...same degree of refrangibility ever belongs the same color, and to the same color ever belongs the same degree of refrangibility." By absorbing the excess... | |
| David Brewster - 1837 - 432 pages
...different colors possessing the same degree of refrangibility. Difference of color is therefore not a test of difference of refrangibility, and the conclusion...same degree of refrangibility ever belongs the same color, and to the same color ever belongs the same degree of refrangibility." With the view of obtaining... | |
| 1838 - 944 pages
...sun, or luminous body, or the aperture from which his spectrum was obtained; hence his proposition, " that to the same degree of refrangibility ever belongs...colour, and to the same colour ever belongs the same refrangibility," proves to have been incorrect. The researches of Sir David Brewster have indeed effected... | |
| Jacques Ozanam - 1840 - 850 pages
...colours possessing the same degree of refrangibility. Difference of colour is therefore not a test of difference of refrangibility, and the conclusion...spectrum, I have examined the spectra produced by various hodies, and the changes which they undergo by absorption when viewed through Varions coloured media... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1840 - 492 pages
...Without reference to this objection, it is now admitted that " the difference of colour is not a test of difference of refrangibility, and the conclusion...colour ever belongs the same degree of refrangibility." — Brewster's Optics, p. 72. NOTE Q.— Par. 387. With the exception of two very inconclusive letters... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1840 - 494 pages
...Without reference to this objection, it is now admitted that " the difference of colour is not a test of difference of refrangibility, and the conclusion...colour ever belongs the same degree of refrangibility." — Brewster's Optics, p. 72. NOTE Q.— Par. 387. With the exception of two very inconclusive letters... | |
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