 | 1918 - 334 pagina’s
...queries at the end of the work is increased from IG to 31, including the celebrated one (No. 28) : ' Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which Light is...pression or motion propagated through a fluid medium ? . . . 1 С it consisted in pression or in motion propagated either in an instant or in time, it would... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1892 - 522 pagina’s
...in motion the water at the back of it. Basing hims-elf on this and similar observations, he says, ' Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which light is supposed to consist of a pression or motion propagated through a fli id medium ? If it consisted in pression or motion,... | |
 | 1893 - 630 pagina’s
...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 - 1272 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1897 - 532 pagina’s
...observations, he says, " 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, it would bend into the shadow." He instances the case of the sound of a bell being heard behind a hill... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1894 - 470 pagina’s
...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 - 324 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 - 672 pagina’s
...upon the original and unchangeable properties of the rays." The long twenty-eighth query12 begins: "Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which light is...pression or motion propagated through a fluid medium? For in all these hypotheses the phenomena of light have been hitherto explained by supposing that "Hartley,... | |
 | Adolph Judah Snow - 1926 - 268 pagina’s
...force every moment, in every shining particle, to generate that motion. And if it consisted in pressure or motion, propagated either in an instant or in time, it would bend into the shadow.' 1 But light, as a matter of fact — or so said Newton 2 — does not follow crooked passages nor bend... | |
 | Mathematical Association - 1927 - 222 pagina’s
...preface, while the number of queries is increased from 16 to 31, which include the celebrated (Xo. 28) : " Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which Light is...fluid medium ? ... If it consisted in pression or in motion propagated either in an instant or in time, it would bend into the Shadow. For pression and... | |
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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 P ' ' If it consisted in pression or in motion propagated either in an instant or in time, it would bend into the shadow. 
