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... colours.1 These trials led to the discovery of the different refrangibility of the rays of light , and are now too well known to stand in need of a particular description . 1 ́Phil . Trans . Vol . VI . ( 1672 ) , p . 3075. Also Hutton's ...
... colours.1 These trials led to the discovery of the different refrangibility of the rays of light , and are now too well known to stand in need of a particular description . 1 ́Phil . Trans . Vol . VI . ( 1672 ) , p . 3075. Also Hutton's ...
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... colour . The spectrum , or solar image , would thus consist of a series of circular images , partly covering one ... colour , the image formed by refraction was truly circular , and of the same 1 Phil . Trans . Vol . VI . ( 1672 ) , No ...
... colour . The spectrum , or solar image , would thus consist of a series of circular images , partly covering one ... colour , the image formed by refraction was truly circular , and of the same 1 Phil . Trans . Vol . VI . ( 1672 ) , No ...
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... colours can be more accurately traced . It was in this way that Newton measured the extent of each colour , and taking the mean of a great number of measures , he assigned the following proportions , dividing the whole length of the ...
... colours can be more accurately traced . It was in this way that Newton measured the extent of each colour , and taking the mean of a great number of measures , he assigned the following proportions , dividing the whole length of the ...
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... colour , if viewed by simple and homogeneous light , are seen of the colour of that light and of no other . Newton tried this very satisfactory experiment on bodies of all colours , and found it to hold uniform- ly ; the light was never ...
... colour , if viewed by simple and homogeneous light , are seen of the colour of that light and of no other . Newton tried this very satisfactory experiment on bodies of all colours , and found it to hold uniform- ly ; the light was never ...
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... colour of natural bodies . Here , however , as it cannot be doubted that all colour comes from the rays of light , so we must conclude that one body is red and another violet , because the one is disposed to reflect the red or least ...
... colour of natural bodies . Here , however , as it cannot be doubted that all colour comes from the rays of light , so we must conclude that one body is red and another violet , because the one is disposed to reflect the red or least ...
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