 | Isaac Newton - 1730 - 403 pagina’s
...The Waves, Pulfes or Vibrations of the Air, wherein Sounds confift, bend manifeftly, though not fo much as the Waves of Water. For a Bell or a Cannon may be heard beyond a Hill which intercepts the light of the founding Body, and . Sounds are propagated as readily through crooked Pipes as through... | |
 | Regnault (Père, Noël) - 1731 - 492 pagina’s
...wherein Sounds confift, bend manifeftly, tho* not fo much as the Waves of Water. For a Bell or a Canon may be heard beyond a Hill which intercepts the Sight of the founding Body; and Sounds are propagated as readily through crooked Pipes, as through ftreight ones.... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1802 - 752 pagina’s
...The waves, pulfes, or vibrations of the air, wherein founds confift, bend manifeilly, though not fo much as the waves of water. For a bell or a cannon may be heard beyond a hill, which intercepts the fight of the founding body ; and founds are propagated as readily through crooked pipes as ilraight... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pagina’s
...then more properly written straight. [See STRAIGHT.] ' ( A bell or g cannon may he heard beyond » hill which intercepts the sight of the sounding body; and sounds are propagated as rrajily through crooked pipes as through strait ones. Ne^L-ton. STRAIT. «. t. i. A narrow pass, or... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 pagina’s
...strriglits to which you're driven, and, as he knows Cato's high worth, is anxious for your life. Adduott. A bell or a cannon may be heard beyond a hill which...are propagated as readily through crooked pipes as through straight ones. tfewton'i Opticks. Whatever straitens the vessels, so as the channels become... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 pagina’s
...streighti to which you're driven, and, as he knows Cato's high worth, is anxious for your life. Adiuon. A bell or a cannon may be heard beyond a hill which intercepts the sight of the sounding bod), and sounds are propagated as readily tkraeji crooked pipes as through straight ones. KevXen'i... | |
 | George Peacock - 1855 - 544 pagina’s
...water behind the obstacle. The_wayeSj pulses*, or vibrations of the air, wherein- sounds conaist»jbend manifestly., though not so much as the waves of water....bell or a cannon may be heard beyond a hill which interrupts the sight of the sounding body ; and sounds are propagated as_readily through crooked pipes... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 pagina’s
...passing by the sides of a broad obstacle which stops part of them, bend afterwards, and dilate themselves gradually into the quiet water behind the obstacle....are propagated as readily through crooked pipes as through straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked passages nor to bend into the shadow."... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 pagina’s
...passing by the sides of a broad obstacle which stops part of them, bend afterwards and dilate themselves gradually into the quiet water behind the obstacle....cannon may be heard beyond a hill which intercepts the sounding body . . . but light is never known to bend into the shadow." Some expressions to which we... | |
 | Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1909 - 324 pagina’s
...bend afterwards, and dilate themselves gradually into the quiet water behind the obstacle. The waves of the air, wherein sounds consist, bend manifestly, though not so much as the waves of water. But light is never known to follow crooked passages nor to bend into the shadow. For the fixed stars,... | |
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... the obstacle. . . . The waves on the surface of stagnating water, passing by the sides of a broad obstacle which stops part of them, bend afterwards and dilate themselves gradually into the quiet water behind the obstacle. The waves, pulses or vibrations... 
