Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 619
about a vertical axis, becomes the generating line of the enveloping hoop above noticed, such a hoopwill of course possess the property of refracting an equally diffused zone of light round the horizon. Fig8302. The difficulty, however, of forming this apparatus appeared so great, that Fresnel…
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