A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Comprehending All the Branches of Useful Knowledge, with Accurate Descriptions as Well of the Various Machines, Instruments, Tools, Figures, and Schemes Necessary for Illustrating Them, as of the Classes, Kinds, Preparations, and Uses of Natural Productions, Whether Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Fossils, Or Fluids; Together with the Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities, Towns, and Other Remarkable Places Throughout the World, Band 4W. Owen, 1764 - 3506 Seiten |
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... light all round , as from a center . See the articles LIGHT , RAY , & c . Radiation is confidered in optics as three- fold , viz . dire & t , reflected , or refracted . See the articles VISION , REFLECTION , and REFRACTION . Though ...
... light all round , as from a center . See the articles LIGHT , RAY , & c . Radiation is confidered in optics as three- fold , viz . dire & t , reflected , or refracted . See the articles VISION , REFLECTION , and REFRACTION . Though ...
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... light- ning found there . RAIN - BOW , iris , in meteorology , a meteor , in form of a party coloured arch , or semi - circle , exhibited in a rainy fky , oppofite to the fun , by the refraction of his rays in the drops of falling rain ...
... light- ning found there . RAIN - BOW , iris , in meteorology , a meteor , in form of a party coloured arch , or semi - circle , exhibited in a rainy fky , oppofite to the fun , by the refraction of his rays in the drops of falling rain ...
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... light , emitted from a radiant , or luminous body . See the article LIGHT . Rays are defined by Sir Ifaac Newton , to be the leaft parts of light , whether fucceffive in the fame line , or cotempo- , rary in several lines . For that ...
... light , emitted from a radiant , or luminous body . See the article LIGHT . Rays are defined by Sir Ifaac Newton , to be the leaft parts of light , whether fucceffive in the fame line , or cotempo- , rary in several lines . For that ...
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... light . See the articles COLOUR , LIGHT , and RAY . The red rays are thofe which of all others are the leaft refrangible hence , as Sir Ifaac Newton fuppofes , the different de- grees of refrangibility arife from the dif- ferent ...
... light . See the articles COLOUR , LIGHT , and RAY . The red rays are thofe which of all others are the leaft refrangible hence , as Sir Ifaac Newton fuppofes , the different de- grees of refrangibility arife from the dif- ferent ...
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... light , in ca- toptrics , is their return , after approach- ing fo near the furfaces of bodies , as to be thereby repelled , or driven backwards . Thus the ray AB ( plate CCXXX . fig . 2 . n ° 1. ) proceeding from the radiant A , and ...
... light , in ca- toptrics , is their return , after approach- ing fo near the furfaces of bodies , as to be thereby repelled , or driven backwards . Thus the ray AB ( plate CCXXX . fig . 2 . n ° 1. ) proceeding from the radiant A , and ...
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