The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonGall & Inglis, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... Optics of Kepler were among the books which he had studied with care. On the works he wrote comments during their perusal ; • and so great was his progress, that he is reported to have found himself more deeply versed in some branches ...
... Optics of Kepler were among the books which he had studied with care. On the works he wrote comments during their perusal ; • and so great was his progress, that he is reported to have found himself more deeply versed in some branches ...
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... optics in the University of Cambridge in the years 1669, 1670, and 1671, containing his principal discoveries relative to the different refrangibility of b'ght, yet it is a singular circumstance, that these discoveries should not have ...
... optics in the University of Cambridge in the years 1669, 1670, and 1671, containing his principal discoveries relative to the different refrangibility of b'ght, yet it is a singular circumstance, that these discoveries should not have ...
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... optics, may be performed with great facility and truth." Hooke had been strongly impressed with the belief (derived, with some modifications, from the theory of Descartes,) that light consisted in the undulations of a highly elastic ...
... optics, may be performed with great facility and truth." Hooke had been strongly impressed with the belief (derived, with some modifications, from the theory of Descartes,) that light consisted in the undulations of a highly elastic ...
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... optics was of the most extensive kind, yet his objections were nearly as groundless as those of his less enlightened countrymen. Attached to his own hypothesis respecting the nature of light, namely, to the system of undulation, he ...
... optics was of the most extensive kind, yet his objections were nearly as groundless as those of his less enlightened countrymen. Attached to his own hypothesis respecting the nature of light, namely, to the system of undulation, he ...
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... his examination of the spectrum, which was under his own " Bee the article OPTICS in the Edinburgh Encyckpmdia, voL XT p. 479, note. PIIIS1IATIC SPECTRUM. 57 immediate examination. It docs not seem to 66 SIB ISAAC NEWTON.
... his examination of the spectrum, which was under his own " Bee the article OPTICS in the Edinburgh Encyckpmdia, voL XT p. 479, note. PIIIS1IATIC SPECTRUM. 57 immediate examination. It docs not seem to 66 SIB ISAAC NEWTON.
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