On the Connexion of the Physical SciencesJ. Murray, 1858 - 523 pages |
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Mary Somerville. producing the motions varying simply as the density of the ether . In aëriform fluids , although the particles are more remote from each other than in liquids and solids , yet the pressure may be so great as to reduce an ...
Mary Somerville. producing the motions varying simply as the density of the ether . In aëriform fluids , although the particles are more remote from each other than in liquids and solids , yet the pressure may be so great as to reduce an ...
Page 167
... Ether for each Colour Newton's Scale of Colours Diffraction of Light - Sir John Her- schel's Theory of the Absorption of Light- Refraction and Reflection of Light . NEWTON and most of his immediate successors imagined light to be a ...
... Ether for each Colour Newton's Scale of Colours Diffraction of Light - Sir John Her- schel's Theory of the Absorption of Light- Refraction and Reflection of Light . NEWTON and most of his immediate successors imagined light to be a ...
Page 168
... ether , whose particles are capable of receiving the vibrations communicated to them by self - luminous bodies , and of transmitting them to the optic nerves , so as to produce the sensation of light . The acceleration in the mean ...
... ether , whose particles are capable of receiving the vibrations communicated to them by self - luminous bodies , and of transmitting them to the optic nerves , so as to produce the sensation of light . The acceleration in the mean ...
Page 169
... ether when set in motion communicates its vibrations to those adjacent , which in succession transmit them to those farther off ; so that the primitive impulse is transferred from particle to par- ticle , and the undulating motion darts ...
... ether when set in motion communicates its vibrations to those adjacent , which in succession transmit them to those farther off ; so that the primitive impulse is transferred from particle to par- ticle , and the undulating motion darts ...
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... ether , when communicated to the optic nerves , would produce the sensation of common light . It is evident that the waves which flow from end to end of the cord in a serpentine form are altogether different from the perpendi- cular ...
... ether , when communicated to the optic nerves , would produce the sensation of common light . It is evident that the waves which flow from end to end of the cord in a serpentine form are altogether different from the perpendi- cular ...
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