 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...every moment, in every shining particle, to generate that motion : and if it consisted in pretsion or motion, propagated either in an instant or in time, it would bend into the shadow. Kacton'i Opticks. Let из not therefore faint, or be weary in our journey, much less turn back or... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1835 - 766 pages
...or medium through which they pass *." " Are not all hypotheses erroneous," he adds in another place, "in which light is supposed to consist in pression or motion, propagated through a fluid medium ? . . . . Pressions or motions, propagated from a shining body through an uniform medium, must be on... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1835 - 806 pages
...or medium through which they pass *." " Are not all hypotheses erroneous," he adds in another place, "in which light is supposed to consist in pression or motion, propagated through a fluid medium ? . . . . Pressions or motions, propagated from a shining body through an uniform medium, must be on... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 556 pages
...light to consist in undulations merely. " Are not," he says, in Question twenty-eight of the Opticks, "all hypotheses erroneous, in which light is supposed...pression or motion propagated through a fluid medium?" The arguments which most weighed with him to produce this conviction, appear to have been the one already... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 pages
...would require an infinite force every moment, in every shining particle, to generate that motion : and if it consisted in pression or motion, propagated...instant or in time, it would bend into the shadow. Ketrtons Opticks. I-cl us not therefore faint, or be weary in O'jr journey, much less turn back or... | |
 | Baden Powell - 1841 - 210 pages
...difference in the lengths of waves of light and of sound. Again, in the 28th query of the Opticks, he asks, "Are not all hypotheses erroneous, in which light...instant or in time, it would bend into the shadow." And he proceeds to illustrate the case by the analogy of waves in water and in that of sound. "But... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 518 pages
...following explicit passage, published in 1717, in the second edition of liis Optics, revised by himself.1 " Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which light is...pression or motion propagated through a fluid medium ? For in all these hypotheses the phenomena of light have been hitherto explained by supposing that... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 682 pages
...light to consist in undulations merely. " Are not," he says, in Question twenty -eight of the Opticks, "all hypotheses erroneous, in which light is supposed...pression or motion propagated through a fluid medium f ' The arguments which most weighed with him to produce this conviction, appear to have been the one... | |
 | Layman - 1881 - 168 pages
...do modern philosophers speak more modestly — than this ? His other difficulty was, that if light " consisted in pression or motion, propagated either...instant or in time, it would bend into the shadow." This, as Professor Tyndall states, has since been shown to occur, and Newton himself was on the threshold... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1887 - 638 pages
...in motion tho water at the back of it. Basing himself on this and similar observations, he says, " Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which light is supposed to consist of a pression or motion propagated through a fluid medium ? If it consisted in pression or motion,... | |
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Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which Light is supposed to consist in pression or motion propagated through a fluid medium P ' ' If it consisted in pression or in motion propagated either in an instant or in time, it would bend into the shadow. 
