 Instead of the circular hole, 'tis better to substitute an oblong hole, shaped like a long parallelogram, with its length parallel to the prism. For if this hole be an inch or two long and but a tenth or twentieth part of an inch broad or narrower, the...  Nature - Page 248edited by - 1915Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Newton - Light - 1730 - 403 pages
...of an Inch broad, or narrower ; the Light of the Image pt will be as limp^e as before, or fimpler, and the Image will become much broader, and therefore more fit to have Experiment^ try'd in its Light than before. Inftead of this Parallelogram Hole may be fubftituted a... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1915 - 834 pages
...admitting the sunlight through a round hole, Newton suggested the use of a linear aperture. Here is the passage from pp. 59-60 of the 4th edition of the Opticks...screen, he might have discovered the dark lines." CT WHITMEU.. Invermay, Hyde Park, Leeds, November 9. THE PARTIAL STERILISATION OF SOILS. ''r'HE work to... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1883 - 896 pages
...parallelogram, with its length parallel to the prism. For if this hole be an inch or two long aud but a tenth or twentieth part of an inch broad or narrower, the light...broader and therefore more fit to have experiments tried in its light than before." (Nature, October, xxvi, p. 572.) Liveing and Dewar have studied carefully... | |
 | Edwin Edser - Light - 1902 - 604 pages
...but a tenth or twentieth part of an inch broad, or narrower, the light of the image [ie the spectrum] will be as simple as before or simpler, and the image...broader, and therefore, more fit to have experiments tried in its light than before." A possible explanation of Newton-s failure to observe the dark lines... | |
 | James Powell Cocke Southall - 1918 - 626 pages
...original source. or twentieth part of an Inch broad or narrower; the Light of the Image, or spectrum, will be as Simple as before or simpler, and the Image...broader, and therefore more fit to have Experiments tried in its Light than before." The fact that NEWTON did not discover the FRAUNHOFER lines of the... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Astronomy - 1927 - 1030 pages
...two long, and but a tenth or twentieth part of an Inch broad or narrower : the Light of the Image pt will be as Simple as before or simpler, and the Image...broader, and therefore more fit to have Experiments tried in its Light than before" (page 49). In spite of all the precautions described in pages 50 and... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1884 - 888 pages
...parallelogram, with its length parallel to the prism. For if this hole be an inch or two long and but a tenth or twentieth part of an inch broad or narrower, the light...broader and therefore more fit to have experiments tried in its light than before." (Nature, October, xxvi, p. 572.) Liveing and Dewar have studied carefully... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1884 - 892 pages
...parallel to the prism. For if this hole be an inch or two long and but a tenth or twentieth part of au inch broad or narrower, the light of the image will...broader and therefore more fit to have experiments tried iu its light than before." (Nature, October, xxvi, p. 572.) Liveing and Dewar bare studied carefully... | |
 | Edgar Heilbronner, Foil A. Miller - Antiques & Collectibles - 2004 - 286 pages
...lnch broad or narrower, the Light of the lmage will be as simple as before, or simpler, and the lmage will become much broader, and therefore more fit to...have Experiments try'd in its Light than before'. The introduction of a slit is usually (and mistakenly) credited to William Hyde Wollaston (1 766-1... | |
 | Education - 1912 - 914 pages
...with its length parallel to the prism. For, if this hole be an inch or two long, and but a tenth or twentieth part of an inch broad or narrower, the light...broader, and therefore more fit to have experiments tried in its light than before." We think some of our readers will like to introduce the study of the... | |
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