F KAIXBOWS IN WATER. 201 [From The London Review, May 16, 1861.] THE REFLECTION OF RAINBOWS IN WATER* To the Editor of The London Review. Sir : 1 do not think there is much difficulty in the rainbowbusiness. We cannot see the reflection of the same rainbowwhich we behold in tlie sky, but we see the… … Fig. 1. red ray in the visible rainbow, the ray, b c s, will give thesame red ray, reflected from the water at c. It is rather a long business to examine the lateral angles,and I have not time to do it; but I presume the result wouldbe, that if a m h, Fig. 2, be the visible rainbow, and x y…
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 · Art · Preraphaelitism · Architecture · Social problems
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