 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...series of colours, so analogous to those of the spectrum, is formed by the refraction of the sun's rajs, in their passage through a shower of rain; every drop...separating the coloured rays as they pass through it; the combined effect of innumerable drops, produces the bow; which you know can be seen, only when there... | |
 | Physics - 1832 - 642 pages
...refraction. Thus the rainbow, which exhibits a series of colours so analogous to those of the spectrum, is formed by the refraction of the sun's rays in their...separating the coloured rays as they pass through it. The sun's rays may be collected to a focus by a lens in the same manner as they are by a concave mirror:... | |
 | Physics - 1832 - 640 pages
...which acts as a prism, in separating the coloured rays as they pass through it. The sun's rays may be collected to a focus by a lens in the same manner as they are by a concave mirror: in the first, the rays pass through the glass, and converge to a focus behind it ; in the latter they... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 pages
...refraction. Thus the rainbow, which exhibits a series of colours so analogous to those of the spectrum, is formed by the refraction of the sun's rays in their...separating the coloured rays as they pass through it. A body appears to be of the colour which it reflects ; as we see it only by reflected rays, it can... | |
 | Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...refraction. Thus the rainbow, which exhibits a series of colours so analogous to those of the spectrum, is formed by the refraction of the sun's rays in their...separating the coloured rays as they pass through it. A body appears to be of' the colour which it reflects ; as we see it only by reflected rays, it can... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...such compound colors as arise from a mixture of two or more of them.* 677. The rainbow is produced by the refraction of the sun's rays in their passage through a shower of rain; each drop of which acts as a prism in separating the colored rays, as they pass through it. 678. This... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 pages
...shown you. The rainbow, which exhibits a series of colours, so analogous to those of the spectrum, is formed by the refraction of the sun's rays in their...passage through a shower of rain, every drop of which disperses coloured rays as they pass through it. EMILY. But how can drops of rain separate the coloured... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1844 - 276 pages
...such compound colors as arise from a mixture of two or more of them.* 677. The rainbow is produced by the refraction of the sun's rays in their passage through a shower of rain; each drop of which acts as a prism in separating the colored rays, as they pass through it. 678. This... | |
 | 1847 - 214 pages
...principal squares of the city. THE rainbow is formed by the refraction of the sun's rays in their passsge through a shower of rain, every drop of which acts...separating the coloured rays as they pass through it. The union of these coloured rays produce white. This may be proved by painting a card in compartments... | |
 | George Grant - Knowledge and learning - 1849 - 328 pages
...refraction. Thus the rainbow, which exhibits a series of colours so analogous to those of the spectrum, is formed by the refraction of the sun's rays in their...separating the coloured rays as they pass through it. The sun's rays may be collected to a focus by a lens in the same manner as they are by a concave mirror... | |
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Thus the rainbow, which exhibits a series of colours so analogous to those of the spectrum, is formed by the refraction of the sun's rays in their passage through a shower of rain, every drop of which acts as a prism, in separating the coloured rays as... 
