The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonGall & Inglis, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... Supposed Decline of Science in England. The appointment of Newton to the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge seems to have been coeval with his grandest discoveries. The first of these, of which the date is well authenticated, is that of the ...
... Supposed Decline of Science in England. The appointment of Newton to the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge seems to have been coeval with his grandest discoveries. The first of these, of which the date is well authenticated, is that of the ...
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... supposed to depend on the degree of accuracy with which they could be executed. In attempting to grind glasses that were not spherical, Newton seems to have conjectured that the defects of lenses, and consequently of refracting ...
... supposed to depend on the degree of accuracy with which they could be executed. In attempting to grind glasses that were not spherical, Newton seems to have conjectured that the defects of lenses, and consequently of refracting ...
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... supposed that light of every colour was equally refracted or bent out of its "% direction when it passed through any lens or prism, or other refracting medium ; and though the exhibition of colours by the prism had been often made ...
... supposed that light of every colour was equally refracted or bent out of its "% direction when it passed through any lens or prism, or other refracting medium ; and though the exhibition of colours by the prism had been often made ...
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... supposed in the preceding illustration that the light employed is homogeneous. If it is white, then the differently coloured fringes will form by their superposition a system of fringes analogous to those seen between two object-glasses ...
... supposed in the preceding illustration that the light employed is homogeneous. If it is white, then the differently coloured fringes will form by their superposition a system of fringes analogous to those seen between two object-glasses ...
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... supposed a little less than is requisite to reflect the white and very faint blue of the first order, they will reflect so very little light as to appear intensely black, and yet may perhaps variously refract * it to and fro within ...
... supposed a little less than is requisite to reflect the white and very faint blue of the first order, they will reflect so very little light as to appear intensely black, and yet may perhaps variously refract * it to and fro within ...
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