 | Samuel Alfred Mitchell - 1923 - 574 pages
...from Optics, Third edition, page 2I.1 " In a very dark chamber at a round hole about onethird part oí an inch broad made in the shut of a window I placed...the opposite wall of the chamber, and there form a colour 'd Image of the Sun. The axis of the prism (that is the line passing through the middle of the... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1927 - 1030 pages
...his famous experiment of analyzing sunlight with a prism:10 "In a very dark Chamber at a round hole about one third part of an Inch broad made in the...the opposite Wall of the Chamber, and there form a coloured Image of the Sun. The Axis of the Prism (that is the Line passing through the middle of the... | |
 | Ruth Salvaggio - 1988 - 192 pages
...Chamber," Newton wrote in his Opticks as he described his centering of the prism, at a round Hole, about one third Part of an Inch broad, made in the...Sun's Light, which came in at that Hole, might be teftacted upwards toward the opposite Wall of the Chamber, and there form a colour'd Image of the Sun.... | |
 | Jonathan Crary - 1992 - 190 pages
...made possible. Near the beginning of the Opticks he recounts: In a very dark Chamber, at a round hole, about one third Part of an Inch, broad, made in the...the opposite wall of the chamber, and there form a coloured image of the Sun.32 The physical activity that Newton describes with the first person pronoun... | |
 | Geoffrey Batchen - 1999 - 294 pages
...55. 74. Newton's Opticks opens with the following passage: "In a very dark Chamber, at a round Hole, about one third Part of an Inch broad, made in the...Chamber, and there form a colour'd Image of the Sun" (as quoted in Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's 'Opticks' and the 18th Century... | |
 | David Pascoe - 1997 - 250 pages
...Near the beginning of the Opticks Isaac Newton recounts how: In a very dark Chamber, at a round hole, about one third Part of an Inch, broad, made in the...the opposite wall of the chamber, and there form a coloured image of the Sun.5 Since a prism is substituted for a plane lens or pinhole, the device Newton... | |
 | S. George Philander - 1998 - 282 pages
...phenomena of colors." He describes his experiment as follows: "In a very dark Chamber, at a round Hole, about one third Part of an inch broad, made in the...the opposite Wall of the Chamber, and there form a colored Image of the Sun." Newton next Constituent Formula Concentrations (%) Nitrogen Oxygen Argon... | |
 | Sarah Riggs - 2002 - 164 pages
...form part of the same, desirable complex." 46 Word Sightings In a very dark Chamber, at a round hole, about one third Part of an Inch broad, made in the...the opposite wall of the chamber, and there form a coloured image of the Sun.': Newton's "I" throughout the Opticks is charged with his sense of ingenuity... | |
 | Alexandra Wettlaufer - 2003 - 316 pages
...dark Chamber, at a round Hole about one third Pan of an Inch, broad, made in the Shut of a Window. 1 placed a Glass Prism, whereby the Beam of the Sun's Light, which came in at that Hole, might be retracted upwards toward the opposite Wall of the Chamber, and there form a colour'd Image of the Sun.30... | |
 | Ronald Bracewell - 2004 - 712 pages
...APERTURE DISTRIBUTION Apertures, in optics, are openings in flat screens dating back to the "round Hole, about one third Part of an Inch broad, made in the Shut of a Window" that Newton pierced in his shutter at Trinity College when he was studying the composition of sunlight.... | |
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In a very dark Chamber at a round hole about one third part of an Inch broad made in the Shut of a Window I placed a Glass Prism, whereby the beam of the Sun's Light which came in at that hole might be refracted upwards toward the opposite Wall of the... 
