 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 650 pages
...they move through it in a direction nearer to the perpendicular drawn to its surface. On the contrary, when light passes out of a denser into a rarer medium,...moves in a direction farther from the perpendicular. This refraction is greater or less, that is, the rays are more or less bent, or turned aside from their... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...they move through it in a direction nearer to the perpendicular drawn to its surface. On the contrary, when light passes out of a denser into a rarer medium,...moves in a direction farther from the perpendicular. This refraction is greater or less, that is, the rays are more or less bent, or turned aside from their... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 620 pages
...they move through it in a direction nearer to the perpendicular drawn to its surface. On the contrary, when light passes out of a denser into a rarer medium,...moves in a direction farther from the perpendicular. This refraction is greater or less, that is, the rays are more or less bent, or turned aside from their... | |
 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 308 pages
...from it reach the eye of the observer. Objects Been obliquely in water appear elevated. Fig. 117. CCV. When light passes out of a denser into a rarer medium,...moves in a direction farther from the perpendicular. Illustration 1. It will be perceived by tracing the line indicating the ray of light proceeding from... | |
 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 280 pages
...reach the eye of the observer. Objects •een obliquely in water appear elevated. Kg. 117. "a CCV. When light passes out of a denser into a rarer medium, it moves in a direction fart her from the perpendicular. Ulustratitni 1. It will be perceived by tracing the line indicating... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1842 - 744 pages
...in a direction nearer to the perpendicular drawn to its surface. On the contrary, when light pusses out of a denser into a rarer medium, it moves in a direction farther from the perpendicular. This refraction is greater or less, that is, the rays are more or Jos bent, or turned aside from their... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Astronomy - 1844 - 370 pages
...they move through it in a direction nearer to the perpendicular drawn to its surface. On the contrary, when light passes out of a denser into a rarer medium',...moves in a direction farther from the perpendicular. This refraction is greater or less ; that is, the rays are more or less bent, or turned aside, from... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 344 pages
...they move through it in a direction nearer to the perpendicular drawn to its surface. On the contrary, when light passes out of a denser into a rarer medium,...moves in a direction farther from the perpendicular. This refraction is greater or less ; that is, the rays are more or less bent, or turned aside, from... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 1018 pages
...they move through it in a direction nearer to the perpendicular drawn to its surlace. On the contrary, when light passes out of a denser into a rarer medium,...moves in a direction farther from the perpendicular. This refraction is greater or less, that is, the rays are more or less bent, or turned aside from their... | |
 | François Arago - Astronomy - 1848 - 108 pages
...the eye of tMte observer. Objects seen obliquely in water appear elevated. Fig. 9. When light ¡KMSCS out of a denser into a rarer medium, it moves in a direction farther from the perpendicular. Illustration 1. It will be perceived by tra cing the line indicating the ray of light proceed ing from... | |
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If the medium which the rays enter be denser, they move through it in a direction nearer to the perpendicular drawn to its surface. On the contrary, when light passes out of a denser into a rarer medium, it moves in a direction farther from the perpendicular.... 
