 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.  MEMOIRES OF THE LIFE,WRITINGS, AND DISCOVERIES - Pagina 148door SIR ISAAC NEWTON - 1855Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1893
...convince Newton, and hence in the " Opticks " (second edition, 1717) he wrote the celebrated Query 28: "Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which light is supposed to consist in pressure or motion propagated through a fluid medium ? If it consisted in motion propagated either... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1894
...convince Newton, and hence in the ' Opticks ' (2nd edit., 1717") he wrote the celebrated Query 28 :— ' Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which light is supposed to consist in pressure or motion propagated through a fluid medium ? If it consisted in motion propagated either... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1894
...convince Newton, and hence in the ' Optics ' (2nd ed. 1717) he propounded the celebrated query 28 : ' Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which Light is...pression or motion propagated through a fluid medium P ' ' If it consisted in pression or in motion propagated either in an instant or in time, it would... | |
 | Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1909 - 251 pagina’s
...that theory. Listen to what he says in one of his famous queries at the end of his book on optics. "Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which light is supposed to consist in motion propagated through a fluid medium ? If it consisted in such motion, it would bend into the shadow.... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1915
...upon the original and unchangeable properties of the rays." The long twenty-eighth query12 begins: "Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which light is...light have been hitherto explained by supposing that "Hartley, Vol. IV, pp. 231-232. Cf. Rosenberger, op. tit., p. 315. "Hartley, Vol. IV, pp. 232-238.... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 349 pagina’s
...336, ff. — " Are not all hypotheses erroneous, in which light is supposed to consist of impression or motion, propagated through a fluid medium ? For...hypotheses, the phenomena of light have been hitherto expla1ned by supposing that they arise from new modifications of the rays ; which is an erroneous supposition."... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1835
...or medium through which they pass *." " Are not all hypotheses erroneous," he adds in another place, "in which light is supposed to consist in pression or motion, propagated through a fluid medium ? • . . . Pressions or motions, propagated from a shining body through an uniform medium, must be... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1901
...explaining the phenomena of light by new modifications of the rays? * * * "Query 28: Are not all the hypotheses erroneous in which light is supposed to...pression or motion, propagated through a fluid medium? * * * and if it (light) consisted in pression or motion, propagated either in an instant or in time,... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - 1960 - 562 pagina’s
...feature of Cartesian cosmology. Query twenty-eight in the Optics had in view less Huygens than Descartes: "Are not all hypotheses erroneous, in which light...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... | |
 | A. G. Howson, Colin Howson, Professor of Philosophy Colin Howson - 1976 - 344 pagina’s
...every way into the quiescent medium where they are terminated by it.15* And in the Opticks he asked: Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is...Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium?. . .if it consisted in Pression or Motion. . .it would bend into the Shadow. For Pression or Motion... | |
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