 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - 1826 - 286 páginas
...Isaac Newton, to whom we are Indebted for the most important discoveries respecting light and colours, was the first who divided a white ray of light, and...But how does a prism separate these coloured rays? Mrs. B. By refraction. It appears that the coloured rays have .different degrees of refrangibilityl... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 páginas
...ISAAC NEWTON, to whom we are indebted for the most important discoveries respecting light and colours, was the first who divided a white ray of light, and...found it to consist of an assemblage of coloured rays. This separation may be observed in the well known experiment of the prism. A ray being let into a darkened... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 páginas
...ISAAC NEWTON, to whom we are indebted for the most important discoveries respecting light and colours, was the first who divided a white ray of light, and...found it to consist of an assemblage of coloured rays. This separation may be observed in the well known experiment of the prism. A ray being let into a darkened... | |
 | 1832 - 650 páginas
...Isaac Newton, to whom we are indebted for the most important discoveries respecting light and colours, was the first who divided a white ray of light, and...rays, which formed an image upon the wall, such as is exhibited (Jig. 28), in which are displayed the following series of colours — red, orange, yellow,... | |
 | 1832 - 642 páginas
...an assemblage of coloured rays, which formed an image upon the wall, such as is exhibited (ßg. 28), in which are displayed the following series of colours...— red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Now a prism separates these coloured rays by refraction. It appears that the coloured rays... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 páginas
...Isaac Newton, to whom we are indebted for the most important discoveries respecting light and colours, was the first who divided a white ray of light, and...rays, which formed an image upon the wall, such as is exhibited, in which are displayed the followingseries of colours — red, orange, yellow, green,... | |
 | 1836 - 424 páginas
...Isaac Newton, to whom we are indebted for the most important discoveries respecting light and colours, was the first who divided a white ray of light, and...rays, which formed an image upon the wall, such as is exhibited, in which are displayed the following series of colours — red, orange, yellow, green,... | |
 | 1838 - 214 páginas
...retina, before preceding impressions have departed. DECOMPOSITION OF LIGHT. Sir Isaac Newton first divided a white ray of light, and found it to consist...assemblage of coloured rays, which formed an image upon a wall, and in which were displayed the following colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 páginas
...Isaac Newton, to whom we are indebted for the most important discoveries respecting light and colours, was the first who divided a white ray of light, and...colours : red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The spreading or separating these colours is called the dispersion of light; the image they... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 328 páginas
...Isaac Newton to whom we are indebted for the most important discoveries respecting light and colours, was the first who divided a white ray of light, and...assemblage of coloured rays which formed an image on the wall, displaying the following colours — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.... | |
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... appear colourless or white. Sir Isaac Newton, to whom we are indebted for the most important discoveries respecting light and colours, was the first who divided a white ray of light, and found it to consist of an assemblage of coloured rays, which... 
