 I am purposing them, to be considered of and examined, an account of a philosophical discovery which induced me to the making of the said telescope ; and I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument ; being in...  Nature - Стр. 265редактор(ы): - 1871Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1872 - Страниц: 520
...ANALYSIS. The prismatic analysis of light discovered by Newton was estimated by himself as being " the oddest, if not the most considerable detection, which...obtain a pure spectrum; but this, with the inevitably VOL. VI. A No, 2. consequent discovery of the dark lines, was reserved for the nineteenth century.... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - Страниц: 716
...investigation. The prismatic analysis of light discovered by Newton was estimated by himself as being " the oddest, if not the most considerable, detection which...nature." Had he not been deflected from the subject, ho could not have failed to obtain a pure spectrum ; but this, with the inevitably consequent discovery... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - Страниц: 728
...prismatic analysis of light discovered by Newton was estimated by himself as being " the oddest, if not tho most considerable, detection which " hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature." Had ho not been deflected from the subject, he could not have failed to obtain a pure spectrum ; but this,... | |
 | L.T. Townsend - 1873 - Страниц: 268
...prismatic analysis of light was first discovered by Newton, and was estimated by himself as being " the oddest, if not the most considerable, detection which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature." But the obtaining of a pure spectrum, with the discovery of the dark lines, was reserved for the nineteenth... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1874 - Страниц: 748
...extension of a method of research, the Discovery of which Newton had called, nearly 200 years before, "the oddest, if not the most considerable, detection which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature." There seemed one question which the spectroscope should now put to the sun above all others, and it... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1881 - Страниц: 902
...offer a communication to that Society respecting his optical analysis, he spoke of it as " being the oddest if not the most considerable detection which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature. " (BtRCii's History of ike Royal Society. 1757: vol. in, p. 6.) Although a century and a quarter elapsed... | |
 | Elkanah Billings, Bernard James Harrington, James Thomas Donald - 1872 - Страниц: 518
...ANALYSIS. The prismatic analysis of light discovered by Newton was estimated by himself as being " the oddest, if not the most considerable detection, which...obtain a pure spectrum ; but this, with the inevitably VOL. VI. A No, 2, conscqucut discovery of the dark lines, was reserved for the nineteenth century.... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - Страниц: 642
...investigation. The prismatic analysis of light discovered by Newton was estimated by himself as " the odd" est, if not the most considerable, detection " which hath...nature." Had he not been deflected from the subject, [had he had nineteenth century optical glass for his prisms] he could not have failed to obtain a pure... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1915 - Страниц: 672
...making of reflecting7 — and not refracting — telescopes, and which was, said he, "in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable, detection which hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature."8 Newton's letter of February 6 to Oldenburg, which contained an account of his theory of light... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - Страниц: 526
...speaking of his discovery of the different refrangibility of the rays of light as " in my judgment the oddest if not the most considerable detection which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature." While he does not insist upon it, he seems always to have the underlying idea that light itself consists... | |
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