 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 oldal
...placed my prism at his entrance, that it might be thereby refracted to the opposite wall. Comparing the length of this coloured spectrum with its breadth,...curiosity of examining from whence it might proceed. I could scarce think, that the various thickness of the glass, or the termination with shadow or darkness,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 oldal
...difficult to determine justly what was their figure ; yet they seemed semicircular. " Comparing the length of this coloured spectrum with its breadth,...curiosity of examining from whence it might proceed. I could scarce think, that the various thickness of the glass, or the termination with shadow or darkness,... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 776 oldal
...refraction. The ' extravagant disproportion between the length of tlienpectrum and its breadth,' excited him to a more than ordinary curiosity of examining from whence it might proceed. He could scarcely think that the various thickness of the glass, or the termination with shadow or... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 518 oldal
...refraction. The " extravagant disproportion between the length of the spectrum and its breadth," excited him to a more than ordinary curiosity of examining from whence it might proceed. He could scarcely think that the various thickness of the glass, or the termination with shadow or... | |
 | 1880 - 930 oldal
...difficult to determine justly what was their figure, yet they seemed semi-circular. " Comparing the length of this coloured spectrum with its breadth,...elongation of his spectrum was due to the fact "that light is not similar or homogeneal, but consists of diffbrm rays, some of which arc more refrangible... | |
 | 1880 - 900 oldal
...silk-weaver at Spitalfields ; he afterward became an optician. " Comparing the length of this colored spectrum with its breadth, I found it about five times...elongation of his spectrum was due to the fact " that light is not similar or homogeneal, but consists of difform rays, some of which are more refrangible... | |
 | 1880 - 922 oldal
...ailk-wcaver at Spitalfields ; he afterward became an optician. " Comparing the length of this colored spectrum with its breadth, I found it about five times...elongation of his spectrum was due to the fact " that light is not similar or homogeneal, but consists of difform rays, some of which are more refrangible... | |
 | 1880 - 1170 oldal
...justly what was their figure, yet they seemed semicircular. " Comparing the length of this colored spectrum with its breadth, I found it about, five...proceed." This curiosity Newton gratified by instituting u series of experimental questions, the answers to which left no doubt upon his mind that the elongation... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1884 - 298 oldal
...difficult to determine justly what was their figure, yet they seemed semicircular. " Comparing the length of this coloured spectrum with its breadth,...curiosity of examining from whence it might proceed. I could scarce think, that the various thickness of the glass, or the termination with shadow or darkness,... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1884 - 294 oldal
...what was their figure, yet they seemed semicircular. " Comparing the length of this coloured spedmm with its breadth, I found it about five times greater...curiosity of examining from whence it might proceed. I could scarce think, that the various thickness of the glass, or the termination with shadow or darkness,... | |
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Comparing the length of this coloured Spectrum with its breadth, I found it about five times greater; a disproportion so extravagant that it excited me to a more than ordinary curiosity of examining from whence it might proceed. 
