 | Edmond Halley, Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1705 - 390 pages
...Rays differently refrangible, which, without any refpeft to a difference in their incidence, were, according to their degrees of refrangibility, transmitted towards divers parts of the Wall. When I underftood this I left offmyaforefaid Glafs Works; for I faw, i;hat the perfedion of Telefcopes was... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pages
...rays differently refrangible, which, without any respect to a difference in their incidence, were, according to their degrees of refrangibility, transmitted towards divers parts of the wall." 1 It was also observed, that when the rays which fell on the second prism were all of the same colour,... | |
 | 1824 - 492 pages
...of rays differentlyrefrangible, which, without any respect to a difference in their incidence, were, according to their degrees of refrangibility, transmitted towards divers parts of the wall." He also observed, that when the rays which fell on the second prism were all of the same colour, the... | |
 | 1824 - 844 pages
...rays differently refrangible, which, without any respect to a difference in their incidence, were, according to their degrees of refrangibility, transmitted towards divers parts of the wall."1 It was also observed, that when the rays which fell on the second prism were all of the same... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - 1825 - 1046 pages
...rays differently refrangible, which, without any respect to a difference in their incidence, were, according to their degrees of refrangibility, transmitted towards divers parts of the wall. It was also observed, that •when the rays which fell on the second prism were all of the same colour,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...rays differently refrangible, which, without any respect to a difference in their incidence, were, according to their degrees of 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... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 840 pages
...were transmitted through the prism to divers parts of the opposite wall. When," continues Newton, " I understood this, I left off my aforesaid glass works...telescopes was hitherto limited, not so much for want of glasses truly figured according to the prescriptions of optick authors, as because that li'jlit itself... | |
 | John Quekett - 1848 - 544 pages
...these words : — " When I had found that light consists of rays differently refrangible, I left off my glass works, for I saw that the perfection of telescopes was hitherto limited not so much for want of glasses truly figured, as because that light itself is a heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible... | |
 | 1880 - 930 pages
...were transmitted through the prism to divers parts of the opposite wall. When," continues Newton, " I understood this, I left off my aforesaid glass works...telescopes was hitherto limited, not so much for want of glasses truly figured according to the prescriptions of optick authors, as because that light itself... | |
 | 1880 - 1170 pages
...were transmitted through the prism to divers parts of the opposite wall. When," continues Newton, " I understood this, I left off my aforesaid glass works...telescopes was hitherto limited, not so much for want of glasses truly figured according to the prescriptions of optick authors, as because that light itself... | |
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And so the true cause of the length of that image was detected to be no other, than that light consists of rays differently refrangible, which, without any respect to a difference in their incidence, were, according to their degrees of refrangibility,... 
