The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

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Taylor & Francis, 1876
 

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Pagina 150 - From the evidence it would appear that the submergence took place at the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Pagina 100 - ... number of particles, each capable of vibrating in perfect unison with every possible undulation, it becomes necessary to suppose the number limited ; for instance, to the three principal colours, red, yellow, and blue...
Pagina 325 - Penrose (FC)— ON A METHOD OF PREDICTING BY GRAPHICAL CONSTRUCTION, OCCULTATIONS OF STARS BY THE MOON, AND SOLAR ECLIPSES FOR ANY GIVEN PLACE. Together with more rigorous methods for the Accurate Calculation of Longitude. By FC PENROSE, FRAS With Charts, Tables, &c.
Pagina 396 - Meeting. It has therefore become necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the several communications, that each Author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir, of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, and that...
Pagina 98 - And since the vibrations which make blue and violet are supposed shorter than those which make red and yellow, they must be reflected at a less thickness of the plate ; which is sufficient to explicate all the ordinary phenomena of those plates or bubbles, and also of all natural bodies whose parts are like so many fragments of such plates. These seem to be most plain, genuine, and necessary conditions of this hypothesis.
Pagina 396 - Committees for the several Sections before the beginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the several Communications, that each Author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir, of a length suitable...
Pagina 102 - B, between red and green, in a certain position of the prism, is perfectly distinct; so also are D and E, the two limits of violet. But C, the limit of green and blue, is not so clearly marked as the rest ; and there are also, on each side of this limit, other distinct dark lines, / and g, either of which, in an imperfect experiment, might be mistaken for the boundary of these colours.
Pagina 229 - This consists of four arms, suspended on a steel point resting on a cup, so that it is capable of revolving horizontally. To the extremity of each arm is fastened a thin disc of pith, lamp-blacked on one side, the black surfaces facing the same way. The whole is enclosed in a glass globe, which is then exhausted to the highest attainable point and hermetically sealed.
Pagina 97 - That fundamental supposition is, that the parts of bodies, when briskly agitated. do excite vibrations in the ether, which are propagated every way from those bodies in straight lines, and cause a sensation of light by beating and dashing against the bottom of the eye, something after the manner that vibrations in the air cause a sensation of sound by beating against the organs of hearing.
Pagina 396 - If it should be inconvenient to the Author that his paper should be read on any particular days, he is requested to send information thereof to the Secretaries in a separate note.

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