 Now the different Magnitude of the hole in the Window-shut, and different thickness of the Prism where the Rays passed through it, and different inclinations of the Prism to the Horizon, made no sensible changes in the length of the Image. Neither did...  Spectrum analysis, 6 lects - Page 37by sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Baden Powell - 1841 - 210 pages
...not make " any change in the length of the image," (Spectrum,) he adds the remarkable assertion, " neither did the different matter of the prisms make...of the experiment according to the quantity of the refraction"—(p. 25.) This last expression might seem ambiguous, but we find him on another occasion... | |
 | Henry E. Roscoe - 1869 - 372 pages
...same distance of 18^ feet was also about 10 inches, or 10 J. Beyond these measures for about J or J of an inch at either end of the spectrum the light...refracted, Newton proceeds.) This image or spectrum PT was coloured, being red at its least refracted end T, and violet at its most refracted end p, and... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 552 pages
...be a little tinged with red and violet, but so very faintly, that I suspected that tincture mi<rht either wholly or in great measure arise from some...refracted, Newton proceeds.] This image or spectrum PT was coloured, being red at its least refracted end T, and violet at its' most refracted end r, and... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 524 pages
...spectrum, observed and proved the indifference of many circumstances by actual trial. He says 1 ': ' Now the different magnitude of the hole in the window-shut,...experiment according to the quantity of the refraction.' But in the latter statement, as I shall afterwards remark (vol. ii. p. 42), Newton assumed an indifference... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1877 - 844 pages
...the prism to the horizon, made no sensible changes in the length of the 1 Opticlcs, 3rd. ed. p. 25. image. Neither did the different matter of the prisms...experiment according to the quantity of the refraction." But in the latter statement, as I shall afterwards remark (p. 432), Newton assumed an indifference... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1887 - 896 pages
...the spectrum, ascertained the indifference of many circumstances by actual trial. He says : 1 " No* the different magnitude of the hole in the window-shut,...experiment according to the quantity of the refraction." But in the latter statement, as I shall afterwards remark (p. 432), Newton assumed an indifference... | |
 | Thomas Preston - 1890 - 494 pages
...polished plates of glass, cemented together in the shape of a prism and filled with water, there is a like success of the experiment according to the quantity of the refraction. This image of the spectrum was coloured, being red at its least refracted end and violet at its most... | |
 | Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 474 pages
...of varying the circumstances. Newton says,2 "The different magnitude of the hole in the window shut, and different thickness of the prism where the rays...experiment according to the quantity of the refraction." Yet even Newton overlooked one important point. — Throughout his researches on the spectrum, he was... | |
 | Jed Z. Buchwald, A. Franklin - 2005 - 248 pages
...all in favor of unequal refrangibility. Varying any of these factors, such as the size of the hole, made no sensible changes in the length of the Image....of the Experiment according to the quantity of the Refraction.58 This is a very strong claim, nearly equivalent to Experiment 8, for it asserts that for... | |
 | Isaac Newton - 2007 - 417 pages
...the Prism where the Rays passed through it, and different inclinations of the Prism to the Hori2on, made no sensible changes in the length of the Image....Experiment according to the quantity of the Refraction. It is farther to be observed, that the Rays went on in right Lines from the Prism to the Image, and... | |
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