The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonGall & Inglis, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... , who may now be considered as having entered upon that brilliant career of discovery, the history of which will form the subject of some of the following chapters. CHAPTER HI. Newton occupied in grinding hyperbolical Lenses— His first.
... , who may now be considered as having entered upon that brilliant career of discovery, the history of which will form the subject of some of the following chapters. CHAPTER HI. Newton occupied in grinding hyperbolical Lenses— His first.
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Sir David Brewster W. T. Lynn. CHAPTER HI. Newton occupied in grinding hyperbolical Lenses— His first Experiments with the Prism made in 1666 — He discovers the Composition of White Light, and the different Refrangi- bUity of the Rays ...
Sir David Brewster W. T. Lynn. CHAPTER HI. Newton occupied in grinding hyperbolical Lenses— His first Experiments with the Prism made in 1666 — He discovers the Composition of White Light, and the different Refrangi- bUity of the Rays ...
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... lenses, the idea of examining the phenomena of colour was one of those sagacious and fortunate impulses which more than once led him to discovery. Descartes, in his Dioptriet, published in 1629, and more recently James Gregory, in his ...
... lenses, the idea of examining the phenomena of colour was one of those sagacious and fortunate impulses which more than once led him to discovery. Descartes, in his Dioptriet, published in 1629, and more recently James Gregory, in his ...
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... lens or prism, or other refracting medium ; and though the exhibition of colours by the prism had been often made previous to the time of Newton, yet no philosopher seems to have attempted to analyse the phenomena. When he had procured ...
... lens or prism, or other refracting medium ; and though the exhibition of colours by the prism had been often made previous to the time of Newton, yet no philosopher seems to have attempted to analyse the phenomena. When he had procured ...
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... lens which refracts light exactly like a prism, must also refract the differently coloured rays with different degrees of force, bringing the violet rays to a focus nearer the glass than the red rays. This is shown in Fig. 2, where LL ...
... lens which refracts light exactly like a prism, must also refract the differently coloured rays with different degrees of force, bringing the violet rays to a focus nearer the glass than the red rays. This is shown in Fig. 2, where LL ...
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