The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonGall & Inglis, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... spectrum, and which is nothing more than an elongated image of the sun, produced by the rays being separated in different degrees from their original direction, the red being refracted least, and the violet most powerfully. If we ...
... spectrum, and which is nothing more than an elongated image of the sun, produced by the rays being separated in different degrees from their original direction, the red being refracted least, and the violet most powerfully. If we ...
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... spectrum. When a beam of white light is decomposed into the seven different colours of the spectrum, any particular colour, when once separated from the rest, is not susceptible of any change, or farther decomposition, whether it is ...
... spectrum. When a beam of white light is decomposed into the seven different colours of the spectrum, any particular colour, when once separated from the rest, is not susceptible of any change, or farther decomposition, whether it is ...
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... spectrum were original or simple, he was led to the conclusion that whiteness or white light is a compound of all the seven colours of the spectrum, in the proportions in which they are represented in Fig. 4. In order to prove this, or ...
... spectrum were original or simple, he was led to the conclusion that whiteness or white light is a compound of all the seven colours of the spectrum, in the proportions in which they are represented in Fig. 4. In order to prove this, or ...
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... spectrum, and uniting all the rest, and as bodies always appear of the same colour as the light in which they are placed, he concluded that the colours of natural bodies are not qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, but arise ...
... spectrum, and uniting all the rest, and as bodies always appear of the same colour as the light in which they are placed, he concluded that the colours of natural bodies are not qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, but arise ...
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... spectrum by the received laws of refraction." When this letter was shown to Newton, he refused to answer it; but a letter was sent to Linus, referring him to the answer to Pardies, and assuring him that the experiments on the spectrum ...
... spectrum by the received laws of refraction." When this letter was shown to Newton, he refused to answer it; but a letter was sent to Linus, referring him to the answer to Pardies, and assuring him that the experiments on the spectrum ...
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