Lectures on Polarized Light: Delivered Before the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and in the Medical School of the London Hospital |
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... supposed resistance to the motions of the planets , retardation of Encke's comet . Ethereal Molecules . Waves , lengths for different colours ; comparative range of sensibility of the eye and ear . Vibrations , rectilinear , circular ...
... supposed resistance to the motions of the planets , retardation of Encke's comet . Ethereal Molecules . Waves , lengths for different colours ; comparative range of sensibility of the eye and ear . Vibrations , rectilinear , circular ...
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... supposed primitive colours , viz . , red , yellow , and blue on a similar disk , and cause this to revolve , we also obtain an impression of greyish white . These experiments , therefore , favour the notion that the sen- sation of white ...
... supposed primitive colours , viz . , red , yellow , and blue on a similar disk , and cause this to revolve , we also obtain an impression of greyish white . These experiments , therefore , favour the notion that the sen- sation of white ...
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... supposed white or * See Taylor's Scientific Memoirs , vol . i . part 1 . See the Proceedings of the Royal Society , for March , 1840 ; also Brande's Manual of Chemistry , 5th edit . , p . 836 . compound light to be used ; and then the ...
... supposed white or * See Taylor's Scientific Memoirs , vol . i . part 1 . See the Proceedings of the Royal Society , for March , 1840 ; also Brande's Manual of Chemistry , 5th edit . , p . 836 . compound light to be used ; and then the ...
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... supposed the light to be propagated in the same manner as sound . This hypothesis , Dr. Young * declares to be " liable to strong objections ; " and he adds , that " on this supposition , the refrac- tion of the rays of light , on ...
... supposed the light to be propagated in the same manner as sound . This hypothesis , Dr. Young * declares to be " liable to strong objections ; " and he adds , that " on this supposition , the refrac- tion of the rays of light , on ...
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... supposed to be a rare , highly elastic , subtile fluid , which occupies all space and pervades all bodies . As the sen- sation of light is supposed to be excited by the undulations of this medium , so , where light exists , there ether ...
... supposed to be a rare , highly elastic , subtile fluid , which occupies all space and pervades all bodies . As the sen- sation of light is supposed to be excited by the undulations of this medium , so , where light exists , there ether ...
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3d Edition annealed glasses apophyllite blue bodies Brewster called circular circularly polarized light cloth common light complementary compression depolarizing Dictionary dilatation direction double refracting prism double refraction doubly refracting crystal elasticity elliptical Encyclopædia Engravings equal ethereal molecules extraordinary ray films of selenite forces Fresnel's fringes glass plates heat History hypothesis Iceland spar Illustrations incident ray inclined J. C. LOUDON JOHN LINDLEY lectures left-handed luminiferous ether medium mica molecules oblique observe optic axes ordinary ray parallel perpendicular phenomena plane of polarization plate of tourmaline polariscope polarized rays position potash principal axis prismatic axis produced quartz rectangular rectilinearly rectilinearly polarized reflected refractive power refractor rhombic rhombohedric right angles rotating selenite Sir John Herschel spectrum square sugar supposed system of rings systems of waves thickness tints tion transmitted TREATISE unannealed glass undulation unequal vibrations Vignette Titles violet white light Woodcuts yellow
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