 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1872 - 752 pages
...prisms, and a magnifying-power of 16 diameters are used, the amount of the change of refraugibility to he observed appears very small. The probable error of...estimations is therefore large, as a shift corresponding to five miles per second (about -£ s of the distance of D 1 to D"), or even a somewhat greater velocity,... | |
 | 1873 - 546 pages
...than I could wish. Even when spectroscope C, containing four compound prisms, and a magnifying-power of 16 diameters are used, the amount of the change...estimations is therefore large, as a shift corresponding to five miles per second (about -£g of the distance of Di to D2), or even a somewhat greater velocity,... | |
 | 1873 - 508 pages
...circumstances connected with these comparisons which necessarily make the numerical estimations given further on less accurate than I could wish. Even when spectroscope C, containing four compound prisms, and a magnify ing-power of 16 diameters are used, the amount of the change of refrangibility to be observed... | |
 | 1873 - 526 pages
...circumstances connected with these comparisons which necessarily make the numerical estimations given further on less accurate than I could wish. Even when spectroscope C, containing four compound prisms, and a magnify ing-power of 16 diameters are used, the amount of the change of refrangibility to be observed... | |
 | 1873 - 1044 pages
...circumstances connected with these comparisons which necessarily make the numerical estimations given further on less accurate than I could wish. Even when spectroscope C, containing four compound prisms, and a magnify ing-power of 16 diameters are used, the amount of the change of refrangibility to be observed... | |
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Even when spectroscope c, containing four compound prisms, and a magnifying power of 16 diameters, are used, the amount of the change of refrangibility to be observed appears very small. The probable error of these estimations is therefore large, as a... 
