| Isaac Newton - 1730 - 432 pages
...to any new Difcoveries, but fuch as they can explain by an Hypothefis, may for the prefent fuppofe, that as Stones by falling upon Water put the Water into an undulating Motion, and all Bodies by percuffion excite vibrations in the Air? fo the Rays of Light, by impinging on any refracting or reflecting... | |
| Isaac Newton - 1730 - 403 pages
...fuch* as they can explain by an Hypothefis, may for the prefent fuppofe, that as Stones by failing upon Water put the Water in«to an undulating Motion, and all Bodies by percufiion excite 'vibrations in the Air; fo the Rays of Light, by impinging on any refracting or reflecting... | |
| William Nicholson - 1787 - 446 pages
...its place. • Sir Ifaac Newton's Hypothefis. It may be fup- 2 pofed, that as ftones by falling into water put the water into an undulating motion, and all bodies by percufTion excite vibrations in the air ; fo the rays of light, by impinging on any refracting or reflecting... | |
| George Adams - 1794 - 604 pages
...•occafioned by the action and re-action between .thofe bodies and light. -Thus, as Hones, by falling into water, put the water into an 'undulating motion ; and all bodies, by by peraifHon, excite vibrations in the air; fo the rays of light, by impinging on any refracting or... | |
| Thomas Webster - 1837 - 512 pages
...the medium, or of something else, I do not here inquire. Those that are averse from assenting to any new discoveries, but such as they can explain by an...percussion, excite vibrations in the air; so the rays of lighti by infringing on any refracting or reflecting surface, excite vibrations in the refracting or... | |
| Layman - 1881 - 168 pages
...Theory, though not that now adopted, in these terms : — " Those that are averse to assenting to any new discoveries but such as they can explain by an...stones by falling upon water put the water into an undulatory motion, and all bodies by percussion excite vibrations in the air ; so the rays of light,... | |
| Thomas Preston - 1890 - 494 pages
...inquire. Those that are averse from assenting to any new discoveries but such as they can explain by a hypothesis, may for the present suppose that as stones...light, by impinging on any refracting or reflecting medium or substance, and by exciting them, agitate the solid parts of the refracting or reflecting... | |
| Thomas Preston - 1895 - 612 pages
...discoveries but such as they can explain by a hypothesis, may for the present suppose that as stones liy falling upon water put the water into an undulating motion, and all bodies by JUTcussion excite vibrations in the air, so the rays of light, by impinging on am refracting or reflecting... | |
| Thomas Preston - 1895 - 614 pages
...but such as they can explain by a hypothesis, may for the present suppose that as stones befalling upon water put the water into an undulating motion, and all bodies bv percussion excite vibrations in the air, so the rays of light, by impinging on any refracting or... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1928 - 534 pages
...changes in terminology, than by quoting what he says : — " Those that are averse from assenting to any new discoveries but such as they can explain by an...stones by falling upon water put the water into an undulatory motion, and all bodies by percussion excite vibrations in the Air ; so the Rays of Light,... | |
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