| Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 840 pages
...the prescriptions of optick authors, as because that li'jlit itself is an heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays ; so that were a glass...same point, which, having the same incidence upon tho same medium, are apt to suffer a different refraction." Goethe harped on this string without cessation.... | |
| David Brewster - 1855 - 504 pages
...authors, (which all men have hitherto imagined), as because light itself is a heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays, so that were a glass...medium, are apt to suffer a different refraction." He was therefore led to " take reflections into consideration/' but in consequence of the interruption... | |
| 1855 - 946 pages
...authors (which all men have hitherto imagined), as because light itself is a heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays, so that were a glass so exactly figured as to collect anyone sort of rays to one point, it could not collect those also into the same point, which, having... | |
| Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 158 pages
...authors, (which all men have hitherto imagined), as because light itself is a hetero geneous mixture of differently refrangible rays, so that were a glass...those also into the same point, which having the same incident upon the same medium, are apt to suffer a different refraction." Thus it was in the year 1666,... | |
| Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 144 pages
...authors, (which all men have hitherto imagined), as because light itself is a hetero geneous mixture of differently refrangible rays, so that were a glass...those also into the same point, which having the same incident upon the same medium, are apt to suffer a different refraction." Thus it was in the year 1666,... | |
| American cyclopaedia - 1862 - 878 pages
...the prescriptions of optic authors, .... as because that light itself is a heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays. So that, were a glass...medium, are apt to suffer a different refraction." Abandoning therefore as hopeless all further attempts at improvement in this direction, he was led... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 874 pages
...the prescriptions of optic authors, .... as because that light itself is a heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays. So that, were a glass...medium, are apt to suffer a different refraction." Abandoning therefore as hopeless all further attempts at improvement in this direction, he was led... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 896 pages
...the prescriptions of optic authors, .... as because that light itself is a heterogendtms mixture of differently refrangible rays. So that, were a glass...one point, it could not collect those also into the earne point which, having the same incidence upon the same medium, are apt to suffer a different refraction."... | |
| 1880 - 930 pages
...to the prescriptions of optick authors, as because that light itself is an heterogeneous mixture ^of differently refrangible rays ; so that were a glass...medium, are apt to suffer a different refraction." Goethe harped on this string without cessation. " The Newtonian doctrine," he says, "was really dead... | |
| Robert Stodart Wyld - 1875 - 590 pages
...authors, which all men have hitherto imagined, as because that light itself is a heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays; so that were a glass...medium, are apt to suffer a different refraction." Newton was not aware that different kinds of glass possessed different dispersive powers, or his keen... | |
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