... tis a sense of that motion under the form of a sound; so colours in the object are nothing but a disposition to reflect this or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest... Spectrum analysis, 6 lects - Page 39by sir Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870Full view - About this book
| Donald D Hoffman - 2000 - 324 pages
...subtleties of the way you construct color. Similarly, Newton and many of his successors thought that "Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...or that sort of Rays more copiously than the rest." Their idea is simple. Light is composed of different rays, which we now describe as having different... | |
| Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 pages
...in this world of the scientist there are only primary qualities. In things, colours, for instance, are 'nothing but a disposition to reflect this or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest, (while) in the rays they are nothing but their dispositions to propagate this or that motion into the... | |
| 2007 - 282 pages
...251 4.2.5. Limitations 254 4.3. Conclusion 254 Acknowledgements 255 References 255 1. INTRODUCTION "Colours in the object are nothing but a disposition...or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest (Rosen et al., 2000)" Newton's Optiks, 1704 Reflectance spectroscopy has already been applied successfully... | |
| Arthur Edward Ellard McKenzie - 1965 - 386 pages
...Green-blue ink on yellow ink. sort of Rays, there would be but one colour in the whole world', and also 'Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...or that sort of Rays more copiously than the rest'. Fig. 189 represents the percentage of the incident white light reflected from (a) yellow ink, (b) blue... | |
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