 | Denison Olmsted - 1832 - 402 pages
...refractions or reflexions, by which a ray acquires POLARITY, or different properties on different sides. This quality of light, which is one of the most remarkable...attention of opticians was more particularly directed towards it by the discoveries of Malus in 1810. The knowledge of this singular property of light has... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1832 - 378 pages
...refractions or reflexions, by which a ray acquires POLARITV, or different properties on different sides. This quality of light, which is one of the most remarkable of all its properties, was discovered hy Huygens during his investigations into the cause of double refraction as exhibited in the Iceland... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1844 - 610 pages
...refract inns or reflexions, by which a ray acquires POLARITY, or different properties on different sides. This quality of light, which is one of the most remarkable...of many of the most intricate phenomena in optics. 811. With respect to the light of the sun, whether it be direct or reflected, whether it be white light... | |
 | Denison Olmsted, Ebenezer Strong Snell - 1845 - 612 pages
...refractions or reflexions, by which a ray acquires POLARITY, or different properties on different sides. This quality of light, which is one of the most remarkable...explanation of many of the most intricate phenomena in opties. 811. With respect to the light of the sun, whether it be direct or reflected, whether it be... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1854 - 620 pages
...refractions or reflexions, by which a ray acquires POLARITY, or different properties on different sides. This quality of light, which is one of the most remarkable...particularly directed toward it by the discoveries of Mams, in 1810.* The knowledge of this singular property of light has afforded an explanation of many... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1855 - 416 pages
...seen in the Iceland crystal. The attention of the scientific world was more particularly directed to it by the discoveries of Malus, in 1810. The knowledge...singular property of light has afforded an explanation of several very intricate phenomena in Optics, and has afforded corroborating evidence in favour of the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1856 - 502 pages
...attention of the scientific world was more particularly directed to it by the discoveries of Mains, in 1810. The knowledge of this singular property of light has afforded an explanation of several very intricate phenomena in Optics, and has afforded corroborating evidence in favor of the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1859 - 480 pages
...attention of the scientific world was more particularly directed to it by the discoveries of Malus, iu 1810. The knowledge of this singular property of light has afforded an explanation of several very intricate phenomena in Optics, and has afforded corroborating evidence in favor of the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1860 - 484 pages
...seen in the Iceland crystal. The attention of«the scientific world was more particularly directed to it by the discoveries of Malus, in 1810. The knowledge of this singular property of light has aflbrded an explanation of several very intricate phenomena in Optics, and has aBbrded corroborating... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1861 - 488 pages
...seen in the Iceland crystal. The attention of the scientific world was more particularly directed to it by the discoveries of Malus, in 1810. The knowledge...singular property of light has afforded an explanation of several very intricate phenomena in Optics, and has afforded corroborating evidence in favor of the... | |
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LIGHT is a change which light undergoes after certain refractions or reflexions, by which a ray acquires POLARITY, or different properties on different sides. This quality of light, which is one of the most remarkable of all its properties, was discovered... 
