 | 1922 - 1406 pagina’s
...convince Newton,and hence in the ' Optics' (2nd ed. 1717) he propounded the celebrated c I ' i >-ry 28 : ' Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which Light is supposed to consist in presgion or motion propagated through a fluid medium P ' ' If it consisted in pression or in motion... | |
 | Alexander Wood - 1983 - 392 pagina’s
...even though he had to use what amounted to a wave theory as a subsidiary hypothesis. Thus he says :2 Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which light is supposed to consist of a pression or motion, propagated through a fluid medium? If it consisted in pression or motion,... | |
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Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which light is supposed to consist in pression or motion propagated through a fluid medium? If it consisted in pression or motion, propagated either in an instant, or in time, it would bend into the shadow. 
