Recreations in science and natural philosophy (1844)
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717. n 93006101, Montucla, Jean Etienne, 1725-1799. n 85800222, Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823. n 84160398, Riddle, Edward, 1788-1854. no2004015425 · London : Thomas Tegg · leaf 346
r rainbow, the rays enter at the bottom Fig. 56. o:' the drop, experience two reflections, and issue at the upper part. Their progress and decomposition, which produces colours in an order contrary to the former, are represented Fig. 56. Hence the colours of the exterior rainbow appear to be… … confirmed by a simple experiment. When the sun is very near the horizon, suspend in an apartment a glass globe filled with water, in such a manner as to be illuminated by the sun ; and place yourself with your back to that luminary, so that the globe shall be elevated in regard to your eye, about…
Scientific recreations
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