History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volume 2D. Appleton, 1859 - Science |
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William Whewell. FORMAL OPTICS . CHAPTER L - PRIMARY INDUCTION OF OPTICS . - RAYS OF LIGHT AND LAWS OF REFLECTION ....... PAGE 53 CHAPTER II . - DISCOVERY OF THE LAW OF REFRACTION ... 54 CHAPTER III - DISCOVERY OF THE LAW OF DISPERSION ...
William Whewell. FORMAL OPTICS . CHAPTER L - PRIMARY INDUCTION OF OPTICS . - RAYS OF LIGHT AND LAWS OF REFLECTION ....... PAGE 53 CHAPTER II . - DISCOVERY OF THE LAW OF REFRACTION ... 54 CHAPTER III - DISCOVERY OF THE LAW OF DISPERSION ...
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... Ray and Willoughby ... 422 Improvement of the System . - Artedi .... 423 Separation of the Artificial and Natural Methods in Ichthyology . 426 ORGANICAL SCIENCES . BOOK XVII . HISTORY OF PHYSIOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY . Introduction ...
... Ray and Willoughby ... 422 Improvement of the System . - Artedi .... 423 Separation of the Artificial and Natural Methods in Ichthyology . 426 ORGANICAL SCIENCES . BOOK XVII . HISTORY OF PHYSIOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY . Introduction ...
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... rays ; for if we suppose objects to be referred by such rays to a plane interposed between them and the eye , all the rules of perspec- tive follow directly . The ancients practised this art , as we see in the pictures which remain to ...
... rays ; for if we suppose objects to be referred by such rays to a plane interposed between them and the eye , all the rules of perspec- tive follow directly . The ancients practised this art , as we see in the pictures which remain to ...
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... rays of light ; and that Ptolemy had measured the amount of refraction of glass and water at various angles . If we give the names of the angle of incidence and the angle of refraction respectively to the angles which a ray of light ...
... rays of light ; and that Ptolemy had measured the amount of refraction of glass and water at various angles . If we give the names of the angle of incidence and the angle of refraction respectively to the angles which a ray of light ...
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... ray refracted in glass or water is turned to- wards the perpendicular , without knowing the exact law of refraction , enabled mathematicians to trace the effects of transparent bodies in Thus in Roger Bacon's works we find a tolerably ...
... ray refracted in glass or water is turned to- wards the perpendicular , without knowing the exact law of refraction , enabled mathematicians to trace the effects of transparent bodies in Thus in Roger Bacon's works we find a tolerably ...
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