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" 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 Chamber,... "
Spectrum Analysis: Six Lectures, Delivered in 1868, Before the Society of ... - Page 28
by Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 484 pages
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Word Sightings: Poetry and Visual Media in Stevens, Bishop, and O'Hara

Sarah Riggs - 2002 - 164 pages
...the necessity of observer passivity, all form part of the same, desirable complex." 46 Word Sightings In a very dark Chamber, at a round hole, about one...which came in at that Hole, might be refracted upwards toward the opposite wall of the chamber, and there form a coloured image of the Sun.': Newton's "I"...
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Fourier Analysis and Imaging

Ronald Bracewell - 2004 - 712 pages
...CONCEPT OF 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 the Mind's Eye: The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin

Alexandra Wettlaufer - 2003 - 316 pages
...effort to illustrate the refraction of light into colors. Newton describes his experiment as follows: In a very 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...
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Our Affair with El NiƱo: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current ...

S. George Philander - 2004 - 296 pages
...light is composed of the sum of all the colors in the rainbow. He described his experiments as follows: "In a very dark Chamber, at a round Hole, about one...which came in at that Hole, might be refracted upwards toward the opposite Wall of the Chamber, and there formed a colored image of the Sun." In his writings...
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A Treatise on Geometrical Optics

368 pages
...following was his first experiment with sunlight. "In a very dark chamber, at a round hole, about one-third part of an inch broad, made in the shut of a window,...which came in at that hole, might be refracted upwards toward the opposite wall of the chamber and there form a coloured image of the sun. The edge of the...
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Thomas Young Natural Philosopher 1773-1829

Alexander Wood - 1983 - 392 pages
...scientific study of colour may be said to start with the work of Newton on the spectrum of the sun. In a very dark chamber, at a round Hole, about one...broad, made in the shut of a Window, I placed a Glass 1 Trans. Optical Sac. 32 (1930-1), 162. Prism, whereby the Beam of the Sun's Light, which came in at...
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