| David Brewster - 1831 - 412 pages
...or transmit it through a thin plate of either of them, it will be reflected and transmitted in (he very same manner and with the same intensity, whether...same property belongs to light emitted from a candle, or any burning or self-himinous body, and all such light is called common light. A section of such... | |
| David Brewster, Alexander Dallas Bache - 1833 - 674 pages
...polarization.* CHAP. XVIII. POLARIZATION OF LIGHT. CHAP. XVIII. ON THE POLARIZATION OF LIGHT. IF we transmit a beam of the sun's light through a circular aperture...or whether it is red light, or light of any other color. The same property belongs to light emitted from a candle, or any burning or self-luminous body,... | |
| David Brewster - 1841 - 432 pages
...edition,) Appendix of Am. ed., Chap. VI. CHAP. XVIII. ON THE POLARIZATION OF LIGHT. IF we transmit a beam of the sun's light through a circular aperture...or whether it is red light, or light of any other color. The same property belongs to light emitted from a candle, or any burning or self-luminous body,... | |
| John Quekett - 1848 - 544 pages
...in all these cases it falls upon the surface in the same manner, or, * Treatise on Optics, page 157. what amounts to the same thing, the beam of solar...same properties on all its sides, and this is true of light emitted from candles or any luminous bodies, and all such light is called common light." But... | |
| Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 648 pages
...apologize for quoting so circumstantially, were it not unavoidable consistently with perspicuity :— " A beam of solar light has the same properties on all...same property belongs to light emitted from a candle, or any burning or self-luminous body, and all such light is called common light " If we allow the same... | |
| John Quekett - 1852 - 600 pages
...VI. ON THE POLARIZATION OF LIGHT. Origin of the Term. — " If," says Sir D. Brewster,* " we transmit a beam of the sun's light through a circular aperture...same properties on all its sides, and this is true of light emitted from candles or any luminous bodies, and all such light is called common light" But... | |
| Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...intensity, whether the surface of the body is held above or below the beam, or on the right side or on the left, or on any other side of it, provided that in...same properties on all its sides ; and this is true of light emitted from candles or any luminous bodies, and all such light is common light." If light... | |
| Jabez Hogg - 1853 - 390 pages
...intensity, whether the surface of the body is held above or below the beam, or on the right side or on the left, or on any other side of it, provided that in...same properties on all its sides ; and this is true of light emitted from candles or any luminous bodies, and all such light is called common light." If... | |
| Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 516 pages
...surface of the body is held above or below the beam, or on the right side or left, provided that in all cases it falls upon the surface in the same manner...is white light as directly emitted from the sun, or from a candle or any burning or selfluminous body ; and all such light is called common light. A section... | |
| John Quekett - 1855 - 1022 pages
...or left, or on any other side of it, provided that in all these cases it falls upon the surface iu the same manner, or, what amounts to the same thing,...same properties on all its sides, and this is true of light emitted from candles or any luminous bodies, and all such light is called common light." But... | |
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