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Chemical or Photographic Rays of Solar Spectrum — Scheele , Ritter , and Wollaston's Discoveries Wedgwood's and Sir Humphry Davy's Photographic Pictures — The Calotype — The Daguerreotype The Chromatype The Cyanotype Collodion Sir John ...
Chemical or Photographic Rays of Solar Spectrum — Scheele , Ritter , and Wollaston's Discoveries Wedgwood's and Sir Humphry Davy's Photographic Pictures — The Calotype — The Daguerreotype The Chromatype The Cyanotype Collodion Sir John ...
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Terrestrial Heat — Radiation — Transmission — Melloni's experiments - Heat in Solar Spectrum Polarization of Heat - Nature of Heat Absorptions — Dew — Rain Combustion — Expansion - Compensation Pendulum - Transmission through Crystals ...
Terrestrial Heat — Radiation — Transmission — Melloni's experiments - Heat in Solar Spectrum Polarization of Heat - Nature of Heat Absorptions — Dew — Rain Combustion — Expansion - Compensation Pendulum - Transmission through Crystals ...
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... separating the rays by refraction , formed a spectrum or oblong image of the sun , consisting of seven colours , red , orange , yellow , green , blue , indigo , and violet — of which the red is the least refrangible , and the violet ...
... separating the rays by refraction , formed a spectrum or oblong image of the sun , consisting of seven colours , red , orange , yellow , green , blue , indigo , and violet — of which the red is the least refrangible , and the violet ...
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The rich dark light transmitted by a smalt - blue finger - glass is not a homogeneous colour like the blue or indigo of the spectrum , but is a mixture of all the colours of white light which the glass has not absorbed .
The rich dark light transmitted by a smalt - blue finger - glass is not a homogeneous colour like the blue or indigo of the spectrum , but is a mixture of all the colours of white light which the glass has not absorbed .
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By this analysis of the spectrum , not only with blue glass but with a variety of coloured media , Sir David Brewster , so justly celebrated for his optical discoveries , is of opinion that the solar spectrum consists of three primary ...
By this analysis of the spectrum , not only with blue glass but with a variety of coloured media , Sir David Brewster , so justly celebrated for his optical discoveries , is of opinion that the solar spectrum consists of three primary ...
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| Title | On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences |
| Author | Mary Somerville |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1858 |
| Original from | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2013 |
| Length | 523 pages |
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