 | David Brewster - 1831 - 412 pages
...polarised, having its plane of polarisation coincident with or parallel to the plane of reflexion. This most curious and important fact, which he found...explain this and the other discoveries of Malus, let CD fig. 87., be a tube of brass or wood, having at one end of it a plate, of glass A, not quickJig. 87.... | |
 | David Brewster - 1837 - 432 pages
...angle of 53°, possessed the very same properties as one of the rays formed by a rhomb of calcareous spar ; that is, that it was wholly polarized, having...explain this and the other discoveries of Malus, let CD, fig. 87., be a tube of brass or wood, having at one end of it a plate of glass, A, not quicksilvered,... | |
 | Sir David Brewster - 1838 - 432 pages
...For the formulae relating to this chapter, see (in the College edition,) Appendix of Am. cd., CUap. VI. This most curious and important fact, which he...explain this and the other discoveries of Malus, let CD, fig. 87., be a tube of brass or wood, having at one end of it a plate of glass, A, not quicksilvered,... | |
 | 1843 - 600 pages
...and cannot bestow. The history of the human mind, in its progress and atchievements is, therefore, one of the most interesting as well as one of the most fruitful of studies. The scholar loves to dwell upon it — and even to the general reader it possesses... | |
 | David Brewster - 1844 - 464 pages
...reflexion. * For the formula relating to this chapter, see (iu the College edition,) Appendix of Am. cd., Chap. VI. This most curious and important fact, which...explain this and the other discoveries of Malus, let CD, fig. 87., be a tube of brass or wood, having at one end of it a plate of glass, A, not quicksilvered,... | |
 | 1844 - 688 pages
...the beautiful range of the Mahabuleshwar, whose climate and scenery render the station formed there one of the most interesting as well as one of the most sanitary localities in Western India. There are no two questions more commonly asked among us, at certain... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1848 - 372 pages
...the beautiful range of the Mahabuleshwar, whose climate and scenery render the station formed there one of the most interesting as well as one of the most sanitary localities in West • ern India. The bungalows on the Mahabuleshwar are built irregularly... | |
 | Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 678 pages
...polarized, having its plane of polarization coincident with or parallel to the plane of reflection. " This most curious and important fact, which he found...one of the most perfect of the physical sciences."* Sir John Herschel may be said to have summed up the evidence regarding these optical discoveries, when... | |
 | Morning call - 1850 - 624 pages
...have not really saved the nation. What this something will prove to be has become at the present time one of the most interesting, as well as one of the most important, subjects for inquiry. Certain it seems that we may cover the face of the country with churches... | |
 | James Bryce - 1852 - 630 pages
...Schools of our country were instituted; but now it has attained the importance and dignity of being one of the most interesting, as well as one of the most useful of all the sciences. It is found to be of almost universal application, there being few phenomena... | |
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... one of the most interesting, as well as one of the most perfect, of the physical sciences. 
