On the Connection of the Physical SciencesHarper & brothers, 1846 - 460 pages |
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... Spectrum - Fraunhofer's Dark Lines- Dispersion of Light - The Achromatic Telescope - Homogeneous Light- Accidental and Complementary Colors - M . Plateau's Experiments and Theory of Accidental Colors 153 SECTION XX . Interference of ...
... Spectrum - Fraunhofer's Dark Lines- Dispersion of Light - The Achromatic Telescope - Homogeneous Light- Accidental and Complementary Colors - M . Plateau's Experiments and Theory of Accidental Colors 153 SECTION XX . Interference of ...
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Mary Somerville. SECTION XXV . Heat - Calorific Rays of the Solar Spectrum - Experiments of MM . De Laroche and Melloni on the Transmission of Heat - The Point of greatest Heat in the Solar Spectrum varies with the Substance of the Prism ...
Mary Somerville. SECTION XXV . Heat - Calorific Rays of the Solar Spectrum - Experiments of MM . De Laroche and Melloni on the Transmission of Heat - The Point of greatest Heat in the Solar Spectrum varies with the Substance of the Prism ...
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... Spectrum - Fraunhofer's Dark Lines- Dispersion of Light - The Achromatic Telescope - Homogeneous Light- Accidental and Complementary Colors - M . Plateau's Experiments and Theory of Accidental Colors . It is impossible thus to trace the ...
... Spectrum - Fraunhofer's Dark Lines- Dispersion of Light - The Achromatic Telescope - Homogeneous Light- Accidental and Complementary Colors - M . Plateau's Experiments and Theory of Accidental Colors . It is impossible thus to trace the ...
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... spectrum . We know of no substance that is either perfectly opaque or perfectly transparent . Even gold may be beaten so thin as to be pervious to light . On the con- trary , the clearest crystal , the purest air or water , stops or ...
... spectrum . We know of no substance that is either perfectly opaque or perfectly transparent . Even gold may be beaten so thin as to be pervious to light . On the con- trary , the clearest crystal , the purest air or water , stops or ...
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... spectrum , but is a mixture of all the colors of white light which the glass has not ab- sorbed . The colors absorbed are such as mixed with the blue tint would form white light . When the spec- trum of seven colors is viewed through a ...
... spectrum , but is a mixture of all the colors of white light which the glass has not ab- sorbed . The colors absorbed are such as mixed with the blue tint would form white light . When the spec- trum of seven colors is viewed through a ...
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