On the Connexion of the Physical SciencesJ. Murray, 1858 - 523 pages |
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... Colour Newton's Scale of Colours - Diffraction of Light -- Sir John Her- schel's Theory of the Absorption of Light — Refraction and Reflection of Light 167 Polarization of Light - - SECTION XXI . - Defined xii CONTENTS .
... Colour Newton's Scale of Colours - Diffraction of Light -- Sir John Her- schel's Theory of the Absorption of Light — Refraction and Reflection of Light 167 Polarization of Light - - SECTION XXI . - Defined xii CONTENTS .
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... Coloured Images produced by Polarized Light passing through Crystals having one and two Optic Axes - Circular Polarization - Elliptical Polarization - Discoveries of MM . Biot , Fresnel , and Professor Airy — Coloured Images produced by ...
... Coloured Images produced by Polarized Light passing through Crystals having one and two Optic Axes - Circular Polarization - Elliptical Polarization - Discoveries of MM . Biot , Fresnel , and Professor Airy — Coloured Images produced by ...
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... coloured ball floating in the ether : the colour is owing to the refraction of the sun's light passing through the earth's atmosphere . In total solar eclipses the slender luminous arc that is visible for a few seconds before the sun ...
... coloured ball floating in the ether : the colour is owing to the refraction of the sun's light passing through the earth's atmosphere . In total solar eclipses the slender luminous arc that is visible for a few seconds before the sun ...
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... coloured protuberances during annular eclipses . He estimates that the volume of these vapours sometimes surpasses that of the earth a thousand or even two thousand times . Sir William Herschel attributed the spots to occasional ...
... coloured protuberances during annular eclipses . He estimates that the volume of these vapours sometimes surpasses that of the earth a thousand or even two thousand times . Sir William Herschel attributed the spots to occasional ...
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... colours . At the time of these observations the part above the ring was bright white ; at his equator there was a ... colour . ( See Plate 2. ) The mean distance of the interior part of the double ring from the surface of the planet ...
... colours . At the time of these observations the part above the ring was bright white ; at his equator there was a ... colour . ( See Plate 2. ) The mean distance of the interior part of the double ring from the surface of the planet ...
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