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" ... pulses or vibrations of the air, wherein sounds consist, bend manifestly, though not so much as the waves of water. For a bell or a cannon may be heard beyond a hill which intercepts the sight of the sounding body, and sounds are propagated as readily... "
Light - Page 186
by Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1909 - 251 pages
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Philosophical Conversations: Or, A New System of Physics, by Way ..., Volume 2

Regnault (Père, Noël) - 1731 - 492 pages
...through crooked Pipes, as through ftreight ones. But Light is never known to follow crooked Pafiages, nor to bend into the Shadow. For the fixed Stars, by the Interpofition of any of the Planets, ceafe to be feen. And fo do the Parts of the Sun by the Interpofition...
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volumes 91-92

Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1802 - 638 pages
...the sounding body; and " sounds are propagated as readily through crooked pipes as " straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked " passages,...pass very near " to the edges of any body, are bent a little by the action of the " body ; — but this bending is not towards but from the shadow, " and...
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The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 23

1827 - 532 pages
...objection to the theory of undulation, that the luminous waves ought to spread into the shadow : " the rays which pass very near to the edges of any body are bent a little bv the action of the body, as we showed above ; but this bending is not towards but from the...
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Life of Thomas Young: M.D., F.R.S., &c.; and One of the Eight Foreign ...

George Peacock - 1855 - 602 pages
...of the sounding body ; and sounds are propagated as readily through crooked pipes as straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked passages,...the interposition of the moon, Mercury, or Venus." • Young combats these conclusions on several grounds. He doubts the validity of the demonstration...
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Life of Thomas Young: M.D., F.R.S., &c.; and One of the Eight Foreign ...

George Peacock - 1855 - 544 pages
...through crooked pipes as straight ones, Butjight is never known to follow crooked passages, nor. .to_ bend into the. shadow. For the fixed stars, by the...the interposition of the moon, Mercury, or Venus." • Young combats these conclusions on several grounds. He doubts the validity of the demonstration...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Volume 1

David Brewster - 1855 - 504 pages
...force which " bends the rays not towards, but from the shadow ;" and he distinctly asserts, " that light is never known to follow crooked passages, nor to bend into the shadow." These erroneous opinions, now wholly exploded, arose from Newton's having never observed the internal...
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Problems of Life and Mind: The principles of certitude. From the known to ...

George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 pages
...sounding body, and sounds are propagated as readily through crooked pipes as through straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked passages nor to bend into the shadow." — NEWTON, Optics, Query 28. It is interesting, now we know the fact that light does bend into the...
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The Monist, Volume 25

Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 pages
...sounding body, and sounds are propagated as readily through crooked pipes as through straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked passages...which pass very near to the edges of any body are bent a little by the action of the body, as we showed above ; but this bending is not toward but from the...
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The Concept of the Positron: A Philosophical Analysis

Norwood Russell Hanson - 1963 - 266 pages
...fringes' are but a special case. But he does not stress this recognition. Indeed he writes in Query 28 : ' The Rays which pass very near to the edges of any Body, are bent a little by the action of the Body, as we shew'd above ; but this bending is not towards but from the...
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Particles and Waves: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science

Peter Achinstein - 1991 - 346 pages
...Sounds consist, bend manifestly, though not so much as the Waves of Water. 7 But Newton concludes: "Light is never known to follow crooked Passages nor to bend into the Shadow." 8 The only wave-theoretic explanation for double refraction of which Newton was aware was one by Huygens....
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