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Page 136
... colors , red , orange , yellow , green , blue , indigo and violet ; of which the red is the least refrangible , and the violet the most ; but when he reunited these seven rays by means of a lens , the compound 136 CONNECTION OF THE.
... colors , red , orange , yellow , green , blue , indigo and violet ; of which the red is the least refrangible , and the violet the most ; but when he reunited these seven rays by means of a lens , the compound 136 CONNECTION OF THE.
Page 137
... color the same refrangibility ever belongs , and to the same refrangibility the same color . Since the discovery of ... colors except red ; yellow cloth reflects the yellow rays most abundantly , and blue cloth those that are blue ...
... color the same refrangibility ever belongs , and to the same refrangibility the same color . Since the discovery of ... colors except red ; yellow cloth reflects the yellow rays most abundantly , and blue cloth those that are blue ...
Page 138
... colors of transparent media depend ; for they also receive their color from their power of stopping or absorbing some of the colors of white light and transmitting others ; as , for example , black and red ink , though equally ...
... colors of transparent media depend ; for they also receive their color from their power of stopping or absorbing some of the colors of white light and transmitting others ; as , for example , black and red ink , though equally ...
Page 139
... colors possessing the same degree of refrangibility . Difference of color , therefore , is not a test of difference of refrangibility , and the conclusion deduced by Newton is no longer admissible as a general truth . By this analysis ...
... colors possessing the same degree of refrangibility . Difference of color , therefore , is not a test of difference of refrangibility , and the conclusion deduced by Newton is no longer admissible as a general truth . By this analysis ...
Page 140
... colors , having its breadth irregularly striped or subdivided by an indefinite number of dark and sometimes black lines . The greater number of these rayless lines are so extremely narrow that it is impossible to see them in ordinary ...
... colors , having its breadth irregularly striped or subdivided by an indefinite number of dark and sometimes black lines . The greater number of these rayless lines are so extremely narrow that it is impossible to see them in ordinary ...
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Page 20 - That day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance about the sacred hill; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of fixed, in all her wheels Resembles nearest, mazes intricate, Eccentrick, intervolved, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.
Page 316 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Page 10 - Kepler also deduced from observation, that the squares of the periodic times of the planets, or the times of their revolutions round the sun, are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from...
Page 28 - His true position is in the diagonal of the parallelogram, whose sides are in the ratio of the velocity of light to the velocity of the earth in its orbit, which is as 190000 to 19.
Page 298 - Jupiter ; it then gradually diminished in splendour, and, having exhibited all the variety of tints that indicate the changes of combustion, vanished sixteen months after its discovery, without altering its position. It is impossible to imagine anything more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance.
Page 296 - The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a sensible disc ; but, in all probability, they are spherical, and must certainly be so if gravitation pervades all space, which it may be presumed to do, since Sir John Herschel has shown that it extends to the binary systems of stars.
Page 318 - These formulae, emblematic of Omniscience, condense into a few symbols the immutable laws of the universe. This mighty instrument of human power itself originates in the primitive constitution of the human mind, and rests upon a few fundamental axioms, which have eternally existed in Him who implanted them in the breast of man when He created him after His own image.
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| Title | The Connection of the Physical Sciences |
| Author | Mary Somerville |
| Publisher | Key and Biddle, 1834 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 26 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 356 pages |
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