 ... as to form a white bow, the red, which projects beyond the rest, being always broadest, so that if all the stripes be supposed to expand, while they preserve their comparative magnitude, the middle of the red may coincide with the middle of the blue...  The Edinburgh Journal of Science - Page 781826Full view - About this book
 | 1813 - 520 pages
...if we suppose the coloured stripes extremely broad, they will coincide in such a manner in one part as to form a white bow : the red, which projects beyond...being always broadest, so that if all the stripes be •npposed to expand, while they preserve their comparative magnitude, the middle of the red may coincide... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1814 - 516 pages
...if we suppose the coloured stripes extremely broad, they will coincide in such a manner in one part as to form a white bow : the red, which projects beyond...place of the coloured bow, when the drops are about 3.0'00 or To'(i „• -of an inch in diameter. It is remarkable that in such cases the original rainbow... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...day heavy nimbi passed in rapid succession from SW, discharging a few showers of rain. At 4 p. M., while the sky was covered with a thin sheet of cirrostratus...place of the coloured bow, when the drops are about ^0 or ^i of an inch in diameter. It is remarkable that, in such cases, the original rainbow is altogether... | |
 | 1826 - 418 pages
...discharging a few showers of rain. At 4 p. M., while the sky was covered with a thin sheet of cirrostratua and floating scud-clouds, and when a large nimbus,...place of the coloured bow, when the drops are about ^^ or ^^ of an inch in diameter. It is remarkable that, in such cases, the original rainbow is altogether... | |
 | 1813 - 522 pages
...it we suppose the coloured stripes extremely broad, they will coincide in such a manner in one part as to form a white bow; the red, which projects beyond...place of the coloured bow, when the drops are about -nyV^ or TOVc- of an inch in diameter. It is remarkable that in such cases the original rainbow is... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1875 - 564 pages
...if we suppose the coloured stripes extremely broad, they will coincide in such a manner in one part as to form a white bow ; the red, which projects beyond...place of the coloured bow, when the drops are about T-0V¡r or riAro of an inch in diameter. It is remarkable that in such cases the original bow is altogether... | |
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