 Those that are averse from assenting to any new discoveries but such as they can explain by an hypothesis may for the present suppose that, as stones by falling upon water put the water into an undulating motion and all bodies by percussion excite vibrations...  The Theory of Light - Page 18by Thomas Preston - 1890 - 574 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Isaac Newton - 1730 - 432 pages
...All which is the thing I would prove. What kind of action or difpofition this is; Whether it confifts in a circulating or a vibrating motion of the Ray, or of the Medium, or fomething elfe, I do not here enquire. Thofe that are averfe from affenting to any new Difcoveries,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1787 - 446 pages
...of the fits of eafy reflection. What kind of action or difpofition this may be, whether it confift in a circulating or a vibrating motion of the ray or of the medium, or fomething elfe, experiments are wanting to determine. But the facts are not the lefs true on account... | |
 | 1832 - 650 pages
...alluded, he warns his reader that he does not pretend to affirm " what kind of action this (Ihe fits) is ; whether it consists in a circulating or a vibrating motion of the ray, or of the medium, or of something else. Those that are averse to assent ing to any new discoveries but such as they can... | |
 | 1832 - 642 pages
...or a vibrating motion of the ray, or of the medium, or of something else. Those that are averse to assenting to any new discoveries but such as they can explain by an hypothesis, may for the present suppose that, as stones, by falling upon water, put the water into... | |
 | Thomas Webster - 1837 - 512 pages
...proposition, a portion of which we have just quoted, concludes in the following remarkable manner : ' What kind -of action or disposition this is ; whether...vibrating motion of the ray, or of the medium, or of something else, I do not here inquire. Those that are averse from assenting to any new discoveries,... | |
 | 1852 - 1080 pages
...alluded, he warns his reader that he does not pretend to affirm " what kind of action this (the fits) is ; whether it consists in a circulating or a vibrating motion of the ray, or of the medium, or of something else. Those that are averse to assenting to any new discoveries but such as they can explain... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 504 pages
...inquire whether the kind of action or disposition in which they originate " consists in a circulating or vibrating motion of the ray or of the medium, or something else ;" but he says, that those who require a hypothesis, " which, whether it be true or false, he does... | |
 | François Arago - 1859 - 508 pages
...expressly says, " what kind of action or disposition this is ; — whether it consist in a circulating or vibrating motion of the ray, or of the medium, or something else, I do not here inquire." (Optics, p. 255, ed. 1721.) The fact is, Newton in his optical researches expressed the same avowed... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1871 - 444 pages
...expressly says: "What kind of action or disposition this is — whether it consists in a circulating or vibrating motion of the ray, or of the medium, or something else, I do not here inquire." (Optics, p. 255, ed. 1721.) The fact is, Newton in his optical researches expressed the same avowed... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 pages
...other for transmission : " what kind of disposition this is — whether it consists in a circulating or vibrating motion of the ray, or of the medium, or something else, I do not here inquire." The colours of thin plates have been much discussed since Newton's time, and numberless experiments... | |
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