The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonGall & Inglis, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... 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 spherical. Descartes had even invented and described machines by which lenses of ...
... 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 spherical. Descartes had even invented and described machines by which lenses of ...
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... refraction, which have led his successors to such brilliant discoveries. Newton, therefore, arose when the science ... refracted or bent out of its "% direction when it passed through any lens or prism, or other refracting medium ; and ...
... refraction, which have led his successors to such brilliant discoveries. Newton, therefore, arose when the science ... refracted or bent out of its "% direction when it passed through any lens or prism, or other refracting medium ; and ...
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... refracted as to exhibit all the different colours on the wall at MN, forming an image about five times as lon^ as it was broad. "It was at first," says our author, " a v«ry pleasing divertisement to view the vivid and intense cdours ...
... refracted as to exhibit all the different colours on the wall at MN, forming an image about five times as lon^ as it was broad. "It was at first," says our author, " a v«ry pleasing divertisement to view the vivid and intense cdours ...
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... refractions. The result was, that the light vhich was diffused by the first prism ABC into an oblon$ form, was reduced by ... refraction. which, from his own experience h« could not imagine to be so erroneous as to make thai angle but 31 ...
... refractions. The result was, that the light vhich was diffused by the first prism ABC into an oblon$ form, was reduced by ... refraction. which, from his own experience h« could not imagine to be so erroneous as to make thai angle but 31 ...
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... refracted than all the rest. Hence he drew the grand conclusion, that light mm not homogeneous, but consisted of ... refract the differently coloured rays with different degrees of force, bringing the violet rays to a focus nearer the ...
... refracted than all the rest. Hence he drew the grand conclusion, that light mm not homogeneous, but consisted of ... refract the differently coloured rays with different degrees of force, bringing the violet rays to a focus nearer the ...
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