| George Adams - 1794 - 604 pages
...TRANSIENT STATE INTO WHICH A RAY OF* LIGHT is PUT, IN IT'S PASSAGE THROUGH ANY REFRACTING SURFACE, WHICH, IN THE PROGRESS OF THE RAY, RETURNS AT EQUAL...INTERVALS ; AND DISPOSES THE RAY, AT EVERY RETURN, TO BE TRANSMITTED, AND 1ETWEEN THE RETURNS, TO BE REFLECTED TO IT. In order to account for the intervals... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 700 pages
...given by Newton is as follows : Every ray of light, in its passage through any refracting surface, is put into a certain transient constitution or state,...next refracting surface, and between the returns to bacasily reflected by it : which alteration of reflection and transmission, it appears, it propagated... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...given by Newton is as follows : Every ray of light, in its passage through any refracting surface, и put into a certain transient constitution or state,...next refracting surface, and between the returns to bf easily reflected by it : which alteration of reflection and transmission, it appears, is propagated... | |
| William Enfield - 1811 - 476 pages
...supposed, that every ray of li^ht, in its passage through any refracting surface, is put into a certain state, which, in the progress of the ray, returns...between the returns, to be easily reflected by it. These he calls fits of easy transmission and reflection. See Schol. Prop XLVI. 4 Two pieces of plate... | |
| William Nicholson - 1821 - 406 pages
...answer given by Newton is as follows: Every ray of light, in its passage through any refracting surface, is put into a certain transient constitution or state,...and between the returns to be easily reflected by it ; which alteration of reflection and transmission, it appears, is propagated from every surface, and... | |
| 1821 - 702 pages
...of their cause. This he supposes to be that every ray, in its passage through a retracting' surface, is put into a certain transient constitution or state,...ray at every return to be easily transmitted through Ili3 next refracting 1 surface, (of an infinite number of which surfaces bo considers the medium to... | |
| William Enfield (M.A.) - 1821 - 302 pages
...supposes, that every ray of light in its passage through any refracting surface is put into a certain constitution or state, which in the progress of the...and disposes the ray at every return to be easily tiansmitted through the next refracting surface, and between the returns to be easily reflected by... | |
| William Nicholson - 1821 - 408 pages
...given by Ne^ tot is as follows : Every ray of light, in it-« passage through any refracting surface, is put into a certain transient constitution or state,...progress of the ray returns at equal intervals, and dispose? the ray at every return to be easily transmitted through the next refracting surface, and... | |
| Thomas Webster - 1837 - 512 pages
...preceded by the following proposition: ' Every ray of light in its passage through any refracting surface, is put into a certain transient constitution or state;...between the returns to be easily reflected by it.' • From the experiments mentioned in the last article, it appears that one and the same sort of rays,... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 pages
...He has irrefragably proved, that every ray of light, in its passage through any refracting surface, is put into a certain transient constitution or state,...returns at equal intervals ; and disposes the ray «< every return to be transmitted, and between the returns to be reflected by it. Hence, he assigns... | |
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