Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, Volume 5, Part 1The Society, 1798 - Science |
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Page 36
... compound of blue and red . The difference between day - light and candle - light is not material . MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS . Colours appear to me much the same by moon- light as they do by candle - light . * Colours viewed by ...
... compound of blue and red . The difference between day - light and candle - light is not material . MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS . Colours appear to me much the same by moon- light as they do by candle - light . * Colours viewed by ...
Page 43
... more proportionably than in day - light . The orange light reflected may therefore exceed the blue , and the compound colour consist of red and orange , Now , the red being most copiously reflected , the On the Vision of Colours . 43.
... more proportionably than in day - light . The orange light reflected may therefore exceed the blue , and the compound colour consist of red and orange , Now , the red being most copiously reflected , the On the Vision of Colours . 43.
Page 69
... compound tones of his art for elementary sounds , in the same manner that the eye of a geometer contemplates his schemes as perfect , though points and lines are represented in them by dots and strokes of ink . The existence of an error ...
... compound tones of his art for elementary sounds , in the same manner that the eye of a geometer contemplates his schemes as perfect , though points and lines are represented in them by dots and strokes of ink . The existence of an error ...
Page 94
... compounds , the number of characters would be prodigiously dimin- ished . Diminutives , augmentatives , opposites , inflec- tions , & c . would furnish the means of an infinitely greater reduction in that respect ; so that the first ...
... compounds , the number of characters would be prodigiously dimin- ished . Diminutives , augmentatives , opposites , inflec- tions , & c . would furnish the means of an infinitely greater reduction in that respect ; so that the first ...
Page 104
... compound force 1 - c ; then the velocity is determined with which it must be pro- jected from that apse , to move in the manner de- scribed in this Scholium ; or in such a manner as never to arrive at another in any finite number of ...
... compound force 1 - c ; then the velocity is determined with which it must be pro- jected from that apse , to move in the manner de- scribed in this Scholium ; or in such a manner as never to arrive at another in any finite number of ...
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