| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1802 - 638 pages
...be dependent on the constitution of this substance. Now, as it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...the three principal colours, red, yellow, and blue, of which the undulations are related in magnitude nearly as the numbers 8, 7, and 6 ; and that each... | |
| William Nicholson - 1802 - 752 pages
...rniteH number of Now, as it is almoft imponible to conceive each feniitive point colorific mo- of tlie retina to contain an infinite number of particles, each capable of vibrating in perfect unifon with every poffible undulation, it becomes neceiTary to fuppoli; the number limited, for inftance,... | |
| Hermann Aubert - 1864 - 434 pages
...be dependent on the constitution of this substance. Now, as it is almost impossiblc to conceivc each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...perfect unison with every possible undulation, it bccomes necessary to süppose the number limitcd, for instance to the three principal colours, red,... | |
| Hermann Aubert - 1865 - 416 pages
...Now , as it is almost impossible to conceive euch sensitive point of the retina to contain aninfinite number of particles, each capable of vibrating in...for instance to the three principal colours, red, yello-vo and blue, of which the undulations ar relatcd in magnitude nearly as the numbres 8, 7 and... | |
| 1875 - 1140 pages
...be dependent on the constitution of this substance. Now, as it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...number limited ; for instance, to the three principal colors, red, yellow and blue, of which the undulations are related in magnitude nearly as the numbers... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 766 pages
...to the higher regions 1 Optlcka : 3'1 edition, 1721, p. 108. ! Quoted by Young, Phil. Trans., 1802, p. 19. of the sensorium, where they become sensations...that each of the particles is capable of being put in motion less or more forcibly, by undulations differing less or more from a perfect unison ; . .... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 772 pages
...be dependent on the constitution of this substance. Now, as it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...that each of the particles is capable of being put in motion less or more forcibly, by undulations differing less or more from a perfect unison ; . .... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 764 pages
...be dependent on the constitution of this substance. Now, as it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...that each of the particles is capable of being put in motion less or more forcibly, by undulations differing less or more from a perfect unison ; . .... | |
| 1876 - 676 pages
...be dependent on the constitution of this substance. Now, as it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...the three principal colours, red, yellow, and blue, of which the undulations are related in magnitude nearly as the numbers 8, 7, and 6 ; and that each... | |
| 1876 - 608 pages
...be dependent on the constitution of this substance. Now, as it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...the three principal colours, red, yellow, and blue, of which the undulations are related in magnitude nearly as the numbers 8, 7, and 6 ; and that each... | |
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