 | Dennis L. Sepper - 2003 - 244 pages
...Rays differently refrangible, which, without any respect to a difference in their incidence, were, according to their degrees of refrangibility, transmitted...wall. When I understood this, I left off my aforesaid Glass-works; for I saw, that the perfection of Telescopes was hitherto limited, not so much for want... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 466 pages
...of rays differently refrangible, which, without any respect to a difference in their incidence, were according to their degrees of refrangibility, transmitted...telescopes was hitherto limited, not so much for want of glasses truly figured according to the prescriptions of optic authors, (which all men have hitherto... | |
 | Mark Pendergrast - 2009 - 448 pages
...without any respect to a difference in their incidence [the angle at which they hit the prism], were, according to their degrees of refrangibility, transmitted towards divers parts of the wall." Once he had absorbed this stunning revelation, Newton stopped trying to grind aspheric lenses. "When... | |
 | 1880 - 894 pages
...were transmitted through the prism to divers parts of the opposite wall. When," continues Newton, " I understood this, I left off my aforesaid glass works...telescopes was hitherto limited, not so much for want of glasses truly figured according to the prescriptions of optick authors, as because that light itself... | |
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And so the true cause of the length of that image was detected to be no other, than that light consists of rays differently refrangible, which, without any respect to a difference in their incidence, were, according to their degrees of refrangibility,... 
