... a grooved structure, like the delicate texture of the skin at the top of an infant's finger, or like the section of the annual growths of wood as seen upon a dressed plank of fir. These may sometimes be seen by the naked eye ; but they are often so... A Treatise on Optics - Page 74by David Brewster, Alexander Dallas Bache - 1833 - 95 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1818 - 764 pages
...surface, which produces all the phenomena of communicable colours. This structure resembles, very closely, the delicate texture of the skin at the top of an infant's finger, or the minute corrugations which are often seen on surfaces covered with varnish, or with oil-paint. When... | |
| 1818 - 782 pages
...surface, which produces all the phenomena of communicable colours. This structure resembles, very closely, the delicate texture of the skin at the top of an infant's finger, or the minute corrugations which are often seen on surfaces covered with varnish, or with oil-paint. When... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 682 pages
...smooth surface, full of the little lines or grooves that I have described. Some people compare them to the delicate texture of the skin at the top of an infant's finger." '•••;•'• ,-i ..•••• Lucy, continuing to rub her finger over the polished surface,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 pages
...elementary grooved surface, which no polishing can modify or remove. This structure resembles very closely the delicate texture of the skin at the top of an infant's finger ; or the lines parallel to the coast upon a map, by which the engraver marks the limits of the sea and land.... | |
| 1829 - 522 pages
...powers, and found that every specimen which exhibited these colours had a grooved structure, resembling the delicate texture of the skin at the top of an infant's finger, or the wrinkles which are often seen on surfaces covered with varnish or with oil paint. We have attempted... | |
| 1829 - 500 pages
...that every specimen which exhibited these colours had a grooved structure, resembling the délie ¡te texture of the skin at the top of an infant's finger, or the wrinkles which are often seen on surfaces covered with varnish or with oil paint. We have attempted... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1837 - 356 pages
...smooth surface full of the little lines or grooves that I have described. Some people compare them to the delicate texture of the skin at the top of an infant's finger." Lucy, continuing to rub her finger over the polished surface, said, " But, mamma, what can these scratches... | |
| 740 pages
...these chromatic effects, discovered, on examining the surface of mother-of-pearl with a microscope, " a grooved structure, like the delicate texture of...the naked eye ; but they are often so minute that 3,000 of them are contained in nn inch." It is remarkable that these iridescent hues can be communicated... | |
| David Brewster - 1841 - 432 pages
...or the blow of a hammer. A solution of gum arabic or of isinglass, when allowed to indurate upon a surface of motherof-pearl, takes a most perfect impression...the top of an infant's finger, or like the section or the annual growths of wood, as seen upon a dressed plank of fir. These may sometimes be seen by... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...these chromatic effects, discovered, on examining the surface of mother-of-pearl with a microscope, " a grooved structure, like the delicate texture of...the naked eye ; but they are often so minute that 3,000 of them are contained in an inch." It is remarkable that these iridescent hues can be communicated... | |
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