The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonGall & Inglis, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... distance HM, which could not have happened had tne rays moved in curvilincal paths. These different hypotheses, or suspicions, as Newton calls them, being thus gradually removed, he was at length led to an experiment which determined ...
... distance HM, which could not have happened had tne rays moved in curvilincal paths. These different hypotheses, or suspicions, as Newton calls them, being thus gradually removed, he was at length led to an experiment which determined ...
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... distance." Such were the earliest attempts to construct the reflecting telescope, that noble instrument which has since effected such splendid discoveries in astronomy. Looking back from the present state of practical science upon its ...
... distance." Such were the earliest attempts to construct the reflecting telescope, that noble instrument which has since effected such splendid discoveries in astronomy. Looking back from the present state of practical science upon its ...
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... distance of 500 feet, and frequently saw the five satellites of Saturn together, a power which was beyond the reach even of Hadley's six foot instrument. The celebrated Maclaurin compared the telescopes of Short with those made by the ...
... distance of 500 feet, and frequently saw the five satellites of Saturn together, a power which was beyond the reach even of Hadley's six foot instrument. The celebrated Maclaurin compared the telescopes of Short with those made by the ...
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... distance from it. When a sheet of white paper was held behind the lens, and removed to a proper distance, the colours s Bhu Grwn -ow REC0MPOSITI0N OF LIGHT. 41 were all refracted into a circular. 40 SIR IBAAC NEWTON.
... distance from it. When a sheet of white paper was held behind the lens, and removed to a proper distance, the colours s Bhu Grwn -ow REC0MPOSITI0N OF LIGHT. 41 were all refracted into a circular. 40 SIR IBAAC NEWTON.
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... distance of twelve or eighteen feet, so that he could not discern the unevenness of the surface of the powder, nor the little shadows let fall from the gritty particles thereof ; the powder appeared intensely white, so as to transcend ...
... distance of twelve or eighteen feet, so that he could not discern the unevenness of the surface of the powder, nor the little shadows let fall from the gritty particles thereof ; the powder appeared intensely white, so as to transcend ...
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