 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 28by Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 484 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 474 pages
...— In a very dark chamber, at a round hole about onethird part of an inch broad made in the shutter of a window, I placed a glass prism, whereby the beam of the sun's light which came in at the' hole might be refracted upwards toward the opposite wall of the chamber, and there form a coloured... | |
 | Sir William Augustus Tilden - 1913 - 394 pages
...the following account of his procedure : l " 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 1 Newton's Opticki, Book I. prism, whereby the beam of the sun's light which came in at that hole might... | |
 | 1918 - 514 pages
...For instance, one reads in Newton's Opticks, "In a very dark chamber, at a round hole about one-third part of an inch broad, made in the shut of a window,...whereby the beam of the sun's light which came in at the hole might be refracted upwards toward the opposite wall of the chamber." This could just as well... | |
 | 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...which came in at that hole might be refracted upwards toward the opposite wall of the chamber, and there form a colour 'd Image of the Sun. The axis of the... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1927 - 1030 pages
...Rays differently Refrangible," describes his famous experiment of analyzing sunlight with a prism:10 "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. The Axis of the... | |
 | Ruth Salvaggio - 1988 - 192 pages
...forces. "In a very dark 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,...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
...the ground on which his knowledge is made possible. Near the beginning of the Opticks he recounts: 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.32 The physical... | |
 | Geoffrey Batchen - 1999 - 294 pages
...1750-1950 (London: Fabcr and Faber, 1965), 55. 74. Newton's Opticks opens with the following passage: "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 colour'd Image of the Sun" (as quoted in... | |
 | David Pascoe - 1997 - 250 pages
...'scene' dependent on Newtonian optics. Near the beginning of the Opticks Isaac Newton recounts how: 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.5 Since a prism... | |
 | S. George Philander - 1998 - 282 pages
...bought a glass prism "to try therewith the phenomena of colors." He describes his experiment 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 form a colored Image of the Sun." Newton next Constituent... | |
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