 | Isaac Newton - Optics - 1730 - 432 pages
...to move from the place of percuffion in concentrick Spheres to great diftances. And in like manner, when a Ray of Light falls upon the Surface of any...or reflecting Medium at the point of Incidence, and continue to arife there, and to be propagated from thence as long as they continue to arife and be... | |
 | Isaac Newton - Light - 1730 - 403 pages
...to move from the place of percuffion in concentrick Spheres to great diftances. And in like manner, when a Ray of Light falls upon the Surface of any...Vibrations, or Tremors, be thereby excited in the refrading or reflecting Medium at the point of Incidence, and continue to ariie there, and to be propagated... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Mathematics - 1802 - 638 pages
...melted, burning, or other hot bodies, " continue in motion." (BIRCH Vol. III. p. 251. Dec. 1675.) " When a ray of light falls upon the surface of any...thereby excited in the refracting or " reflecting medium ? — And are not these vibrations propagated " from the point of incidence to great distances ? And... | |
 | William Nicholson - Science - 1802 - 752 pages
...1675). " When a ray of light falls upon the furface of any pellucid .« i)ocjy) an(j ¡^ there refracied or reflected, may not waves of " vibrations, or tremors, be thereby excited in the refraciing " or refleciing medium ? And are not thefe vibrations propa" gated from the point of incidence... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 682 pages
...use such machinery to produce his "fits of easy transmission." In his seventeenth Query, he says," " when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any...put them into the fits of easy reflection and easy Optieki, p. 322. transmission described above ?" Several of the other queries imply the same persuasion,... | |
 | Natural history - 1862 - 540 pages
...to move from the place of percussion in concentric spheres to great distances. And in like manner, when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any...or reflecting medium at the point of incidence, and continue to arise there, and to be propagated from thence as long as they continue to arise, and be... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Science - 1862 - 544 pages
...to move from the place of percussion in concentric spheres to great distances. And in like manner, when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any...or reflecting medium at the point of incidence, and continue to arise there, and to be propagated from thence as long as they continue to arise, and be... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1866 - 680 pages
...use Mich machinery to produce his "fits of easy transmission." In his seventeenth Query, he says," "when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any...overtake the rays of light, and by overtaking them succcs•irely do they not put them into the fits of easy rcflectkn and casv 90 HISTORY OF OPTICS.... | |
 | Sir Oliver Lodge - Electricity - 1889 - 450 pages
...to move from the place of percussion in concentrick Spheres to great distances. And in like manner, when a Ray of Light falls upon the Surface of any...refracting or reflecting Medium at the point of Incidence ...?'' " Qu. 1 8. If in two large tall cylindrical Vessels of Glass inverted, two little Thermometers... | |
 | Thomas Preston - Light - 1890 - 494 pages
...to move from the place of percussion in concentric spheres to great distances. And in like manner, when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any...or reflecting medium at the point of incidence and continue to arise there, and to be propagated from thence . . . and are not these vibrations propagated... | |
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And in like manner, when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any pellucid body, and is there refracted or reflected, may not waves of vibrations, or tremors, be thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting medium at the point of incidence... 
