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" Every Ray of Light in its passage through any refracting Surface is put into a certain transient Constitution or State, which in the progress of the Ray returns at equal Intervals, and disposes the Ray at every return to be easily transmitted through... "
Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers ... - Page 418
edited by - 1858
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Institutes of Natural Philosophy: Theoretical and Practical

William Enfield - 1811 - 476 pages
...the ray, returns at equal intervals, and disposes the ray, at every return, to be easily transmitted through the next refracting surface, and, between the returns, to be easily reflected by it. These he calls fits of easy transmission and reflection. See Schol. Prop XLVI. 4 Two pieces of plate...
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Scientific Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics: Including Arithmetic ...

William Enfield (M.A.) - 1821 - 302 pages
...of the ray returns at equal intervals, and disposes the ray at every return to be easily tiansmitted through the next refracting surface, and between the returns to be easily reflected by it. These he calls fits of easy transmission and reflection. Three Objects discernible only with both Eyet....
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British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 7

William Nicholson - 1821 - 408 pages
...of the ray returns at equal intervals, and dispose? the ray at every return to be easily transmitted through the next refracting surface, and between the returns to be easily reflected by it j which alteration of re flection and transmission, it appears, is propagated from every surface, and...
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 7

William Nicholson - 1821 - 406 pages
...of the ray returns at equal intervals, and disposes the ray at every return to be easily transmitted through the next refracting surface, and between the returns to be easily reflected by it ; which alteration of reflection and transmission, it appears, is propagated from every surface, and...
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Library of Useful Knowledge: Natural philosophy, Volume 1

1829 - 522 pages
...hypothetical, and is besides of a complex nature, we shall content ourselves with having merely announced it. In the undulatory theory of light the colours...interference of the light reflected from the second surface of the plate with the light reflected from the Jint surface. This explanation, which Sir Isaac...
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Library of Useful Knowledge: Natural philosophy, Volume 1

1829 - 522 pages
...of the ray returns at equal intervals, and disposes the ray at every return to be easily transmitted through the next refracting surface, and between the returns to be easily reflected by it. By means of this principle Sir Isaac has given an explanation of most of the phenomena ; but, as it...
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The Elements of Physics

Thomas Webster - 1837 - 512 pages
...the ray, returns at equal intervals, and disposes the ray at every return to be easily transmitted through the next refracting surface ; and between the returns to be easily reflected by it.' • From the experiments mentioned in the last article, it appears that one and the same sort of rays,...
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Christian Pamphlets, Volume 7

1852 - 1080 pages
...the ray, returns at equal intervals, and disposes the ray at every return to be easily transmitted through the next refracting surface, and between the returns, to be easily reflected by it. Let AB (fig. 45 ) be a ray of pure homogeneous light falling perpendicularly on a refracting surface,...
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The Theory of Light

Thomas Preston - 1890 - 494 pages
...progress of the ray returns at equal intervals and disposes the ray at every return to be easily refracted through the next refracting surface, and between the returns to be easily reflected by it. "This is manifest by the 5th, 9th, 12th, and 15th observations (coloured rings). For by those observations...
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The Electrical Engineer

1893 - 630 pages
...the ray returns at frequent intervals, and disposes the ray at each return to be easily transmitted through the next refracting surface, and between the returns to be easily reflected by it. Definition. — The return of the disposition of any ray to be reflected I will call its fit of easy...
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