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" I told you, that light is not similar, or homogeneal, but consists of difform rays, some of which are more refrangible than others: so that of those, which are alike incident on the same medium, some shall be more refracted than others, and that not by... "
Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E ... - Page 375
by Encyclopaedia - 1845
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Miscellanea Curiosa: Containing a Collection of Some of the ..., Volume 1

Edmond Halley, Richard Mead - 1708 - 430 pages
...refrangible than others : So that of thofe, which are alike incident on the fame Medium, fome fhall be more refracted than others, and that not by any virtue of the Glafs, or other external Caufe, but from a predifoofitiqn, which every particular Ray hath to fuffer...
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Readings in Natural Philosophy: Or, A Popular Display of the Wonders of ...

Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...refrangibility, transmitted towards divers parts of the wall. Light, therefore, is not similar, or homogeneal, but consists of difform rays, some of which are more...ray has to suffer a particular degree of refraction. As the rays of light differ in degrees of refrangibility, so they also differ in their disposition...
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The Journal of the Royal institution of Great Britain. Notices of ..., Volume 9

Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 840 pages
...gome of which are more refrangible than others ; so that without any difference in their incidence on the same medium, some shall be more refracted than others ; and therefore that, according to tiieii particular degrees of refrangibility, they were transmitted through...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 33

1880 - 930 pages
...weaver at Spitalfi«14« ; he afterwards became an optician. without any difference in their incidence on the same medium, some shall be more refracted than others ; and therefore that, according to their particular degrees of refrangibility, they were transmitted through...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 17

1880 - 924 pages
...some of which are more refrangible than others ; so that, without any difference in their incidence on the same medium, some shall be more refracted than others ; and therefore that, according to their particular degrees of refrangibility, they were transmitted through...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 17

1880 - 900 pages
...some of which are more refrangible than others ; so that, without any difference in their incidence on the same medium, some shall be more refracted than others ; and therefore that, according to their particular degrees of refrangibility, they were transmitted through...
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Light

Peter Guthrie Tait - 1884 - 298 pages
...rays, some of which are more refrangible than others; so that without any difference in their incidence on the same medium, some shall be more refracted than others ; and therefore that, according to their particular degrees of refrangibility, they were transmitted through...
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New Fragments

John Tyndall - 1892 - 522 pages
...some of which are more refrangible than others ; so that, without any difference in their incidence on the same medium, some shall be more refracted than others ; and therefore that, according to their particular degrees of ref Tangibility, they were transmitted through...
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New Fragments

John Tyndall - 1898 - 84 pages
...rays, some of which are more refrangible others ; so that, without any difference in their incidence on the same medium, some shall be more refracted than others; and therefore that, according to their particular degrees of refrang'ibility, they were transmitted through...
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The Library of Original Sources: Advance in knowledge, 1650-1800

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 pages
...placed. But to return from this digression, I told you, that a light is not similar, or homogeneal, but consists of difform rays, some of which are more...proceed to acquaint you with another more notable difformity in its rays, wherein the origin of colours is unfolded ; concerning which I shall lay down...
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