The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonHarper & Bros., 1843 - 314 páginas |
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... Reflection and Transmission - Colours of thick Plates CHAPTER VII . ..... Newton's Theory of the Colours of Natural Bodies explained - Ob- jections to it stated - New Classification of Colours - Outline of a new Theory proposed CHAPTER ...
... Reflection and Transmission - Colours of thick Plates CHAPTER VII . ..... Newton's Theory of the Colours of Natural Bodies explained - Ob- jections to it stated - New Classification of Colours - Outline of a new Theory proposed CHAPTER ...
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... reflected or refracted , with mathematical accuracy , to a point or focus , by giving the surface a parabolic , an elliptical , or a hyperbolic form , or some other form not spher- ical . Descartes had even invented and described ...
... reflected or refracted , with mathematical accuracy , to a point or focus , by giving the surface a parabolic , an elliptical , or a hyperbolic form , or some other form not spher- ical . Descartes had even invented and described ...
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... reflected regularly , so that the angle of reflec- tion was equal to the angle of incidence , he con- cluded that , upon this principle , optical instruments might be brought to any degree of perfection imaginable , provided a ...
... reflected regularly , so that the angle of reflec- tion was equal to the angle of incidence , he con- cluded that , upon this principle , optical instruments might be brought to any degree of perfection imaginable , provided a ...
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... reflected from mirrors . It may become fainter or brighter , but Newton never could , by any process , alter its colour or its refrangibility . Among the various bodies which act upon light , it is conceivable that there might have been ...
... reflected from mirrors . It may become fainter or brighter , but Newton never could , by any process , alter its colour or its refrangibility . Among the various bodies which act upon light , it is conceivable that there might have been ...
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... trum seen by Linus may have been the circular one formed by one reflexion , or , what he thought more probable , the circular one formed by two refractions , and one intervening reflection from the base of the prism 56 SIR ISAAC NEWTON .
... trum seen by Linus may have been the circular one formed by one reflexion , or , what he thought more probable , the circular one formed by two refractions , and one intervening reflection from the base of the prism 56 SIR ISAAC NEWTON .
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