| George Adams - Physics - 1794 - 604 pages
...TRANSIENT STATE INTO WHICH A RAY OF* LIGHT is PUT, IN IT'S PASSAGE THROUGH ANY REFRACTING SURFACE, WHICH, IN THE PROGRESS OF THE RAY, RETURNS AT EQUAL...INTERVALS ; AND DISPOSES THE RAY, AT EVERY RETURN, TO BE TRANSMITTED, AND 1ETWEEN THE RETURNS, TO BE REFLECTED TO IT. In order to account for the intervals... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...light, in its passage through any refracting surface, is put into a certain transient constitution or state, which in the progress of the ray returns at...next refracting surface, and between the returns to bacasily reflected by it : which alteration of reflection and transmission, it appears, it propagated... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...light, in its passage through any refracting surface, и put into a certain transient constitution or state, which in the progress of the ray returns at...next refracting surface, and between the returns to bf easily reflected by it : which alteration of reflection and transmission, it appears, is propagated... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...light, in its passage through any refracting surface, is put into a certain transient constitution or state, which in the progress of the ray returns at...and between the returns to be easily reflected by it ; which alteration of reflection and transmission, it appears, is propagated from every surface, and... | |
| English literature - 1821 - 702 pages
...ray, in its passage through a retracting' surface, is put into a certain transient constitution or state, which in the progress of the ray returns at...ray at every return to be easily transmitted through Ili3 next refracting 1 surface, (of an infinite number of which surfaces bo considers the medium to... | |
| William Enfield (M.A.) - Amusements - 1821 - 302 pages
...every ray of light in its passage through any refracting surface is put into a certain constitution or state, which in the progress of the ray returns at...and disposes the ray at every return to be easily tiansmitted through the next refracting surface, and between the returns to be easily reflected by... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...light, in it-« passage through any refracting surface, is put into a certain transient constitution or state, which in the progress of the ray returns at equal intervals, and dispose? the ray at every return to be easily transmitted through the next refracting surface, and... | |
| Physics - 1829 - 522 pages
...yet been given of the colours of thin plates. Sir Isaac Newton supposed that every ray of light in or state, which in the progress of the ray returns at...between the returns to be easily reflected by it. By means of this principle Sir Isaac has given an explanation of most of the phenomena ; but, as it... | |
| Physics - 1832 - 642 pages
...certain transient constitution or state, which, in the progress of the ray, returns at equal intervais, and disposes the ray at every return to be easily...between the returns, to be easily reflected by it. Let А В (fig. 45 ) be a ray of pure homogeneous light falling perpendicularly on a refracting surface,... | |
| Thomas Webster - Physics - 1837 - 512 pages
...light in its passage through any refracting surface, is put into a certain transient constitution or state; which, in the progress of the ray, returns...between the returns to be easily reflected by it.' • From the experiments mentioned in the last article, it appears that one and the same sort of rays,... | |
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