 | Edmond Halley, Richard Mead - 1708 - 430 pages
...As the Rays of Light differ in degrees of Refrangibility, fo they alfo differ in their difc poiuion to exhibit this or that particular Colour. Colours...believed) but Original and connate Properties, which >n divers Rays are divers. Some Rays are difpofed to exhibit a red Colour and no other ; feme a yellow... | |
 | George Adams - 1794 - 604 pages
...reflexibility, fo they alfo differ in their difpofitionto exhibit this or that particular colour ; and that colours are not qualifications of light derived from refractions or reflections of natural bodies, as was generally believed, but original and connate properties, which are different in different rays,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...As the rays of light differ in degrees of refrangibility, so they also differ in their disposition to exhibit this or that particular colour. Colours...refractions, or reflections of natural bodies (as it is generally believed), but original and connate properties, which in divers rays are diverse. Some... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 pages
...As the rays of light differ in degrees of refrangibility, so they also differ in their disposition to exhibit this or that particular colour. Colours...refractions, or reflections of natural bodies (as it is generally believed), but original and connate properties, which in divers rays are diverse. Some... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1854 - 466 pages
...As the rays of light differ in degrees of refrangibility, so they also differ in their disposition to exhibit this or that particular colour. Colours...from refractions or reflections of natural bodies, but original and connate properties, which in divers rays are divers," &c. " 2. To the same degree... | |
 | 1902 - 614 pages
...As the rays of light differ in degrees of refrangibility, so they also differ in their disposition to exhibit this or that particular colour. Colours...refractions, or reflections of natural bodies (as it is generally believed,) but original and connate properties, which in divers rays are diverse. Some... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1903 - 1258 pages
...and that "Colors are not qualifications of light derived from refractions or natural bodies, as is generally believed, but original and connate properties which in divers rays are divers." He also said that "White light is ever compounded and to its composition are requisite all the aforesaid... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 pages
...in their disposition of light, derived from refractions, or reflections of natural bodies (as it is generally believed,) but original and connate properties, which in divers rays are 'diverse. Some rays are disposed to exhibit a red colour, and no other : some a yellow, and no other... | |
 | Edmund Taylor Whittaker - 1910 - 502 pages
...later. In it he propounds a theory of colour directly opposed to that of Hooke. " Colours," he says, " are not Qualifications of light derived from Refractions,...of natural Bodies (as 'tis generally believed), but Oi-iginal and connate properties, which in divers Rays are divers. Some Rays are disposed to exhibit... | |
 | Edmund Taylor Whittaker - 1910 - 502 pages
...of colour directly opposed to that of Hooke. " Colours," he says, "are not Qtialifirsitions of liyht derived from Refractions, or Reflections of natural Bodies (as 'tis generally believed), but Orvjinnl and connate properties, which in divers Ravs are clivers. Some Rays are disposed to exhibit... | |
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Some rays are disposed to exhibit a red colour and no other; some a yellow and no other, some a green and no other, and so of the rest. Nor are there only rays proper and particular to the more eminent colours, but even to all their intermediate gradations. 
