 | 1827 - 532 pagina’s
...very near to the edges of any body are bent a little bv the action of the body, as we showed above ; but this bending is not towards but from the shadow,...soon as the ray is past the body, it goes right on." It is difficult to understand how the inflection of light into the shadow should have escaped so accurate... | |
 | Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1909 - 324 pagina’s
...interposition of the Moon, Mercury, or Venus. The rays which pass very near to the edges of any body are bent by the action of the body ; but this bending is not...soon as the ray is past the body it goes right on." Had Newton varied his experiments, and observed carefully enough, he could have found a bending towards... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 pagina’s
...but from the shadow, and is performed only in the passage of the ray u Prmcipia, Book II, Prop. XLII. by the body and at a very small distance from it....soon as the ray is past the body it goes right on." In the course of this query, Newton remarked:14 "And against filling the heavens with fluid mediums,... | |
 | Norwood Russell Hanson - 1963 - 266 pagina’s
...the Body, as we shew'd above ; but this bending is not towards but from the Shadow, and is perform'd only in the passage of the Ray by the Body, and at a very small distance from it ' (Opticks, my italics). 3 Eg Elements, book I, proposition ix ; the proof of the theorem that from... | |
 | Lisa M. Dolling, Arthur F. Gianelli, Glenn N. Statile - 2003 - 762 pagina’s
...very near to the edges to any body are bent a little by the action of the body, as we shewed above; but this bending is not towards but from the shadow,...soon as the ray is past the body, it goes right on. To explain the unusual refraction of island crystal by pression or motion propagated, has not hitherto... | |
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For the fixed stars, by the interposition of any of the planets, cease to be seen. And so do the parts of the sun by the interposition of the moon. Mercury, or Venus. The rays which pass very near to the edges of any body are bent a little by the action... 