 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1802 - 638 pàgines
...intercepts the sight of the sounding body; and " sounds are propagated as readily through crooked pipes as " straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked " passages, nor to bend into the shadow. For the fixed stars, " by the interposition of any of the planets, cease to be seen. " And so do the... | |
 | George Peacock - 1855 - 544 pàgines
...interrupts the sight of the sounding body ; and sounds are propagated as readily through crooked pipes as straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked passages, nor to bend into the shadow. For the fixed stars, by the interposition of any of the planets, cease to be seen, and so do the parts... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 504 pàgines
...force which " bends the rays not towards, but from the shadow ;" and he distinctly asserts, " that light is never known to follow crooked passages, nor to bend into the shadow." These erroneous opinions, now wholly exploded, arose from Newton's having never observed the internal... | |
 | Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1909 - 324 pàgines
...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, by the interposition of any of the planets, cease to be seen. And so do the parts... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 pàgines
...way with as much force sideways as downwards and through crooked passages as through straight ones. The waves on the surface of stagnating water, passing...follow crooked passages nor to bend into the shadow. For the fixed stars, by the interposition of any of the planets, cease to be seen. And so do the parts... | |
 | Peter Achinstein - 1991 - 346 pàgines
...Sounds consist, bend manifestly, though not so much as the Waves of Water. 7 But Newton concludes: "Light is never known to follow crooked Passages nor to bend into the Shadow." 8 The only wave-theoretic explanation for double refraction of which Newton was aware was one by Huygens.... | |
 | Lisa M. Dolling, Arthur F. Gianelli, Glenn N. Statile - 2003 - 762 pàgines
...and with as much force sideways as downwards, and through crooked passages as through straight ones. The waves on the surface of stagnating water, passing...follow crooked passages nor to bend into the shadow. For the fixed stars by the interposition of any of the planets cease to be seen. And so do the parts... | |
 | Roy Sorensen - 2008 - 328 pàgines
...the light. Nevertheless, shadows inherit the subtleties of light. In his book Opticks, Newton wrote, "Light is never known to follow crooked Passages nor to bend into the Shadow" (1704/1952, 363). If light were a wave, it would bend around corners like water waves. We would be... | |
 | Arthur Edward Ellard McKenzie - 1965 - 386 pàgines
...not. 'For a Bell or a Cannon may be heard beyond a Hill', he wrote, ' which intercepts the sight of a sounding Body, and Sounds are propagated as readily...known to follow Crooked Passages nor to bend into Shadow.' He put forward the theory, as the simplest explanation of rectilinear propagation, that light... | |
 | Alexander Wood - 1983 - 392 pàgines
...interrupts the sight of the sounding body; and sounds are propagated as readily through crooked pipes as straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked passages, nor to bend into the shadow. For the fixed stars, by the interposition of any of the planets, cease to be seen, and so do the parts... | |
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... obstacle. The waves, pulses or vibrations of the air wherein sounds consist bend manifestly; though not so much as the waves of water. For a bell or a cannon may be heard beyond a hill which intercepts the sight of the sounding body, and sounds are... 