A laboratory course in experimental physics (1896)
Loudon, W. J. (William James), McLennan, John Cunningham, joint author · New York and London, Macmillan and Co. · leaf 44
quid will take when freed from the action of gravity. A full account of the various elementary phenomena of capil-larity is to be found in a little book entitled Soap Bubbles by C. V. Boys. XV. THE SEXTANT. This instrument, shewn in Fig. 24, consists of a frameworkin the shape of a circular sector,… … Fig. 24. it; while to the frame on the left-hand side is attached asecond mirror M, which has only the lower half silvered, andmay by means of screws be rotated about an axis either parallel,or perpendicular to the frame. Opposite to this mirror, in mostsextants, there is attached permanently to…
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