 | Isaac Newton - Optics - 1730 - 432 pages
...that the vibrations thus excited are pfopagated in the refracting or reflecting Medium or Subftance, much after the manner that vibrations are propagated in the Air for caufing Sound, and move fafter than the Rays fo as to overtake them ; and that when any Ray is in that... | |
 | Isaac Newton - Light - 1730 - 403 pages
...agitate the folid parts of ' the refracting or. reflecting Body, and by agitating them caufe the, Body to grow warm or hot; that the vibrations thus excited...propagated in the refracting or reflecting Medium. or Subllance, much after the manner that vibra- • tions are propagated in the -Air for cauiing • Sound,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Astronomy - 1787 - 446 pages
...agitate the folid parts of the refracting or reflecting body, and by agitating them, caufe the body to grow warm or hot; that the vibrations thus excited...propagated in the refracting or reflecting medium or fubftance much after the manner that vibrations are propagated in the air for caufing found, and move... | |
 | George Adams - Physics - 1794 - 604 pages
...manner that vibrations are propagated in the air, caufing found, and moving f ajler than the rays, fo as to overtake them ; and that when any ray is in that part of the vibration which confpires with it's motion, it eafily breaks through a refracting furface ; but when it is in the contrary... | |
 | William Nicholson - Astronomy - 1805 - 446 pages
...agitate the folid parts of the refracting or reflecting body, and by agitating them, caufe the body to grow warm or hot; that the vibrations thus excited are propagated in the tefracting or reflecting medium or fubftance much after the manner that vibrations are propagated in... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...These vibrations, thus produced in the medium, move faster than the rays, so as to overtake them ; and when any ray is in that part of the vibration which conspires with its motion, its velocity is increased, and so it easily breaks through a refracting surface ; but when it is in... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...These vibrations, thus produced in the medium, move faster than the rays, so as to overtake them ; and when any ray is in that part of the vibration which conspires with its motion, its velocity is increased, and so it easily breaks through a refi acting surface ; but when it is in... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...These vibrations, thus produced in the medium, move faster than the rays, so as to overtake them ; and when any ray is in that part of the vibration which conspires with its motion. its velocity is increased, and so it easily breaks through a refracting surface ; but when it is in... | |
 | Thomas Webster - Physics - 1837 - 512 pages
...agitate the sob'd parts of the refracting or reflecting body, and by agitating them cause the body to grow warm or hot ; that the vibrations thus excited...propagated in the air for causing sound, and move, fester than the rays, so as to overtake them ; and that when any ray is in that part of the vibration... | |
 | Layman - Bible and evolution - 1881 - 168 pages
...or reflecting surface, excite vibrations in the refracting or reflecting medium or substance ; . . . that the vibrations thus excited are propagated in...vibrations are propagated in the air for causing sound. . . . But whether this hypothesis be true or false I do not here consider" The last sentence italicised... | |
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... to grow warm or hot ; that the vibrations thus excited are propagated in the refracting or reflecting medium or substance, much after the manner that vibrations are propagated in the air for causing sound, and move faster than the rays, so as to overtake... 
