 | 1880 - 900 pages
...to the prescriptions of optick authors, as because that light itself is an heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays ; so that were a glass...the same incidence upon the same medium, are apt to iuffer a different refraction." Goethe harped on this string without cessation. " The Newtonian doctrine,"... | |
 | 1880 - 922 pages
...to the prescriptions of optick authors, as because that light itself is an heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays ; so that were a glass...the same incidence upon the same medium, are apt to iuffer a different refraction." Goethe harped on this string without cessation. " The Newtonian doctrine,"... | |
 | 1880 - 1170 pages
...to the prescriptions of optick authors, as because that light itself is an heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays ; so that were a glass...same point, which, having the same incidence upon I lie same medium, are apt to suffer a different refraction." Goethe harped on this string without... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 774 pages
...as because that Hiiht itself is an hetero1 mixture of differently refrangible rays ; so that were ag exactly figured as to collect any one sort of rays into one p could not collect those also into the same point, which, hav same incidence upon the same medium,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1892 - 522 pages
...to the prescriptions of optick authors, as because that light itself is an heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays ; so that were a glass...medium, are apt to suffer a different refraction.' Goethe harped on this string without cessation. ' The Newtonian doctrine,' he says, ' was really dead... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1898 - 84 pages
...light itself is an heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays ; so that were a glass BO exactly figured as to collect any one sort of rays...medium, are apt to suffer a different refraction.' Goethe harped on this string without cessation. * The Newtonian doctrine,' he says, ' was really dead... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1898 - 524 pages
...to the prescriptions of optick authors, as because that light itself is an heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays ; so that were a glass so exactly figured as to collect any one soit of rays into one point, it could not collect those also into the same point, which, having the... | |
 | 1902 - 614 pages
...(which all men have hitherto imagined,) as because that light itself is a heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays. So that, were a glass...same medium are apt to suffer a different refraction. Xay, I wondered, that seeing the difference of refrangibility was so great, as I found it, telescopes... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 pages
...authors, (which all men have hitherto imagined) as because that light itself is a heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays. So that, were a glass...so great, as I found it, telescopes should arrive to that perfection they are now at. For measuring the refractions in any one of my prisms, I found,... | |
 | 1902 - 588 pages
...(which all men have hitherto imagined,) as because that light itself is a heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays. So that, were a glass...so great, as I found it, telescopes should arrive to that perfection they are now at. For measuring the refractions in one of my prisms, I found that... | |
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I saw, that the perfection of 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 imagined,) as because that light itself is a heterogeneous mixture... 
