Six lectures on light [electronic resource] : delivered in the United States in 1872-1873 (1882)
Tyndall, John, 1820-1893, Parsons, John Herbert, Sir, 1868-1957, donor, University College, London. Library Services, University College, London. Library Services · London : Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 50
28 ON LIGHT. lect; but the scientific mind is fond of verification, and never neglects it where it is possible. Newton completed his proof by synthesis in this way: — The spectrum now before you is produced by a glass prism. Causing the decomposed beam to pass through a second similar prism, but so… … neously abolished. Are they always so ? Can we have the one without the other? It was Newton's conclu- sion that we could not. Here he erred, and his error, which he maintained to the end of his life, retarded the progress of optical, discovery. Dollond subse- quently proved that by combining two…
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 · Young, Thomas, 1773-1829 · Arago, F. (François), 1786-1853 · Light · Wave theory of light · Optical illusions · Gravitation · Vision
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