 | Isaac Newton - 1730 - 432 pagina’s
...percuffion in concentrick Spheres to great diftances. And in like manner, when a Ray of Light falls upon the Surface of any pellucid \ Body, and is there refracted...thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting Medium at the point of Incidence, and continue to arife there, and to be propagated from thence as long as... | |
 | Isaac Newton - 1730 - 403 pagina’s
...percuffion in concentrick Spheres to great diftances. And in like manner, when a Ray of Light falls upon the Surface of any pellucid Body, and is there refracted...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... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1802 - 752 pagina’s
...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 - 1837 - 1048 pagina’s
...says", "when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any pellucid body, and is 11 Opticks, p. 322. there refracted or reflected; may not waves of vibrations...thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting medium at the point of incidence? .... and do not these vibrations overtake the rays of light, and by overtaking... | |
 | William Whewell - 1857 - 518 pagina’s
...his 'fits of easy transmission.' In his seventeenth Query, he says,11 'when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any pellucid body, and is there refracted...reflected; may not waves of vibrations or tremors 11 Opticks, p. be thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting medium at the point of incidence... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 682 pagina’s
...his "fits of easy transmission." In his seventeenth Query, he says," " when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any pellucid body, and is there refracted...thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting medium at the point of incidence ? . . . . and do not these vibrations overtake the rays of light, and by... | |
 | William Whewell - 1859 - 668 pagina’s
...his " fits of easy transmission." In his seventeenth Query, he says," "when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any pellucid body, and is there refracted...thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting medium at the point of incidence ? . . . . and do not these vibrations overtake the rays of light, and by... | |
 | 1862 - 540 pagina’s
...percussion in concentric spheres to great distances. And in like manner, when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any pellucid body, and is there refracted...thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting medium at the point of incidence, and continue to arise there, and to be propagated from thence as long as... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1862 - 544 pagina’s
...percussion in concentric spheres to great distances. And in like manner, when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any pellucid body, and is there refracted...thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting medium at the point of incidence, and continue to arise there, and to be propagated from thence as long as... | |
 | William Whewell - 1866 - 680 pagina’s
...his "fits of easy transmission." In his seventeenth Query, he says," "when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any pellucid body, and is there refracted...thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting medium at the point of incidence ? . . . . and do not these vibrations overtake the rays of light, and by... | |
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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... 
