The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonGall & Inglis, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... violet rays to a focus nearer the glass than the red rays. This is shown in Fig. 2, where LL is a convex lens and SL, SL rays of the sun falling upon it in parallel directions. The violet rays existing in the white light SL being more ...
... violet rays to a focus nearer the glass than the red rays. This is shown in Fig. 2, where LL is a convex lens and SL, SL rays of the sun falling upon it in parallel directions. The violet rays existing in the white light SL being more ...
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... violet images, nor indeed any of them but the yellow one. There will consequently be a distinct yellow image, with indistinct images of all the other colours, producing great confusion and indistinctness of vision. As soon at Newton saw ...
... violet images, nor indeed any of them but the yellow one. There will consequently be a distinct yellow image, with indistinct images of all the other colours, producing great confusion and indistinctness of vision. As soon at Newton saw ...
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... violet most powerfully. If we consider light as consisting of minute particles of matter, we may form some notion of its decomposition by the prism from the following popular illustration. If we take steel filings of seven different ...
... violet most powerfully. If we consider light as consisting of minute particles of matter, we may form some notion of its decomposition by the prism from the following popular illustration. If we take steel filings of seven different ...
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... violet rays and most upon the red rays. Newton, however, found that this never took place ; but that the same degree of rcfrangibility always belonged to the same colour, and the same colour to the same degree of refrangibility. Having ...
... violet rays and most upon the red rays. Newton, however, found that this never took place ; but that the same degree of rcfrangibility always belonged to the same colour, and the same colour to the same degree of refrangibility. Having ...
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... violet, which produce by their mixture all the rest, and which are themselves formed by the two sides of a split pulse or undulation. In reply to these observations, Newton wrote an able letter to Oldenburg, dated June 11th, 1672, in ...
... violet, which produce by their mixture all the rest, and which are themselves formed by the two sides of a split pulse or undulation. In reply to these observations, Newton wrote an able letter to Oldenburg, dated June 11th, 1672, in ...
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