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" IF we transmit," says Dr. Brewster, " a beam of the sun's light through a circular aperture into a dark room, and if we reflect it from any crystallized or uncrystallized body, or transmit it through a thin plate of either of them, it will be reflected... "
A Treatise on Optics - Page 137
by David Brewster - 1841 - 418 pages
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A Treatise on Optics

David Brewster - 1831 - 412 pages
...or transmit it through a thin plate of either of them, it will be reflected and transmitted in (he very same manner and with the same intensity, whether...or whether it is red light, or light of any other colour. The same property belongs to light emitted from a candle, or any burning or self-himinous body,...
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A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope: Including the Different ...

John Quekett - 1848 - 544 pages
...in all these cases it falls upon the surface in the same manner, or, * Treatise on Optics, page 157. what amounts to the same thing, the beam of solar...same properties on all its sides, and this is true of light emitted from candles or any luminous bodies, and all such light is called common light." But...
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The Dynamical Theory of the Formation of the Earth, Volume 2

Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 648 pages
...apologize for quoting so circumstantially, were it not unavoidable consistently with perspicuity :— " A beam of solar light has the same properties on all...or whether it is red light, or light of any other colour. " The same property belongs to light emitted from a candle, or any burning or self-luminous...
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The Microscopist: Or, A Complete Manual on the Use of the Microscope ...

Joseph Henry Wythe - 1851 - 204 pages
...14. Spermatozoa. Semen. 14* CHAPTER XIII. ON POLARIZED LIGHT. " IF we transmit/' says Dr. Brewster, " a beam of the sun's light through a circular aperture...or whether it is red light, or light of any other colour. "The same property belongs to light emitted from a candle, Fig. 52. or any burning or self-luminous...
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The Microscopist; Or, A Complete Manual on the Use of the Microscope ...

Joseph Henry Wythe - 1852 - 208 pages
...14. Spermatozoa. Semen. 14* CHAPTER XIII. ON POLARIZED LIGHT. "Ir we transmit," says Dr. Brewster, "a beam of the sun's light through a circular aperture...or whether it is red light, or light of any other colour. "The same property belongs to light emitted from a candle, Fig. 52. Oo or any burning or self-luminous...
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A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope: Including the Different ...

John Quekett - 1852 - 600 pages
...floor. CHAPTER VI. ON THE POLARIZATION OF LIGHT. Origin of the Term. — " If," says Sir D. Brewster,* " we transmit a beam of the sun's light through a circular...same properties on all its sides, and this is true of light emitted from candles or any luminous bodies, and all such light is called common light" But...
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Elements of Experimental and Natural Philosophy ...

Jabez Hogg - 1853 - 390 pages
...intensity, whether the surface of the body is held above or below the beam, or on the right side or on the left, or on any other side of it, provided that in...same properties on all its sides ; and this is true of light emitted from candles or any luminous bodies, and all such light is called common light." If...
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Lives of the illustrious. The Biographical magazine [ed. by J.P. Edwards].

Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...intensity, whether the surface of the body is held above or below the beam, or on the right side or on the left, or on any other side of it, provided that in...same properties on all its sides ; and this is true of light emitted from candles or any luminous bodies, and all such light is common light." If light...
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The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Applications ...

Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 516 pages
...surface of the body is held above or below the beam, or on the right side or left, provided that in all cases it falls upon the surface in the same manner...is white light as directly emitted from the sun, or from a candle or any burning or selfluminous body ; and all such light is called common light. A section...
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A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope: Including the Different ...

John Quekett - 1855 - 1022 pages
...or left, or on any other side of it, provided that in all these cases it falls upon the surface iu the same manner, or, what amounts to the same thing,...same properties on all its sides, and this is true of light emitted from candles or any luminous bodies, and all such light is called common light." But...
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