Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of LightWilliam Innys at the West-End of St. Paul's., 1730 - 382 páginas |
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... Bubbles and Veins , with its Sides not a little convex or concave , as usually happens , but truly plane , and its Polish elaborate , as in working Optick - glasses , and not such as is usually wrought with Putty , whereby the edges of ...
... Bubbles and Veins , with its Sides not a little convex or concave , as usually happens , but truly plane , and its Polish elaborate , as in working Optick - glasses , and not such as is usually wrought with Putty , whereby the edges of ...
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... Bubbles in the Glass , which refracted the Light irregu- larly . Wherefore I covered that Part of the Glass with black Paper , and letting the Light pass through another Part of it which was free from such Bubbles , the Spectrum of ...
... Bubbles in the Glass , which refracted the Light irregu- larly . Wherefore I covered that Part of the Glass with black Paper , and letting the Light pass through another Part of it which was free from such Bubbles , the Spectrum of ...
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... Bubbles in the Glasses , and partly by the Inequalities of their Polish ; which Light , tho ' it was but little , yet it being of a white Colour , might suffice to affect the Sense so strongly as to disturb the Phænomena of that weak ...
... Bubbles in the Glasses , and partly by the Inequalities of their Polish ; which Light , tho ' it was but little , yet it being of a white Colour , might suffice to affect the Sense so strongly as to disturb the Phænomena of that weak ...
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... Bubbles with which Children play are various , and change their Si- tuation variously , without any respect to any Confine or Shadow . If such a Bubble be co- ver'd with a concave Glass , to keep it from be- ing agitated by any Wind or ...
... Bubbles with which Children play are various , and change their Si- tuation variously , without any respect to any Confine or Shadow . If such a Bubble be co- ver'd with a concave Glass , to keep it from be- ing agitated by any Wind or ...
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... , Indico , Bife , Gold , Sil- ver , Copper , Brass , blue Flowers , Violets , Bubbles of Water tinged with various Colours , Peacock's Feathers , the Tincture of Lignum Nephriticum , and such - like , in red homogeneal Nephri BOOK I. 107.
... , Indico , Bife , Gold , Sil- ver , Copper , Brass , blue Flowers , Violets , Bubbles of Water tinged with various Colours , Peacock's Feathers , the Tincture of Lignum Nephriticum , and such - like , in red homogeneal Nephri BOOK I. 107.
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections ... Isaac Newton Vista de fragmentos - 1952 |
Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections ... Isaac Newton Vista de fragmentos - 1931 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 369 - ... the Instinct of Brutes and Insects, can be the effect of nothing else than the Wisdom and Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more able by his Will to move the Bodies within his boundless uniform Sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the Parts of the Universe, than we are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies.
Página 367 - ... to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet discovered: and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion above mentioned, they being of very general extent, and leave their causes to be found out.
Página 368 - And so must the Uniformity in the Bodies of Animals, they having generally a right and a left side shaped alike, and on either side of their Bodies two Legs behind, and either two Arms, or two Legs, or two Wings before upon their Shoulders, and between their Shoulders a Neck running down into a Back-bone, and a Head upon it; and in the Head two Ears, two Eyes, a Nose, a Mouth, and a Tongue, alike situated.
Página 362 - And thus nature will be very conformable to herself and very simple, performing all the great motions of the heavenly bodies by the attraction of gravity which intercedes those bodies and almost all the small ones of their particles by some other attractive and repelling powers which intercede the particles.
Página 371 - And if Natural Philosophy in all its parts, by pursuing this method, shall at length be perfected; the bounds of Moral Philosophy will be also enlarged. For so far as we can know by Natural Philosophy what is the First cause, what power He has over us, and what benefits we receive from Him; so far our duty towards Him, as well as that towards one another, will appear to us by the light of Nature.
Página 369 - Will; and he is no more the Soul of them, than the Soul of Man is the Soul of the Species of Things carried through the Organs of Sense into the place of its Sensation, where it perceives them by means of its immediate Presence, without the Intervention of any third thing.
Página 363 - The vis inertiae is a passive Principle by which Bodies persist in their Motion or Rest, receive Motion in proportion to the Force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. By this Principle alone there never could have been any Motion in the World.
Página 343 - ... Salt and unites with it, and in Distillation the Spirit of the common Salt or Salt-petre comes over much easier than it would do before, and the acid part of the Spirit of Vitriol stays behind; does not this argue that the fix'd Alcaly of the Salt attracts the acid Spirit of the Vitriol more strongly than its own Spirit, and not being able to hold them both, lets go its own?
Página 368 - Now by the help of these Principles, all material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles above-mentioned, variously associated in the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order.
Página 334 - What is there in places almost empty of matter, and whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate towards one another, without dense matter between them ? Whence is it that nature doth nothing in vain; and whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world?