Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 446
of reflecting. Look onFig. 201, a view of some buildings at Venice; and, in order to see how muchof its beauty is owing to the quivering reflections, imagine the impressionit would produce were the place of the water occupied by asphalte pave-ment, or a grass lawn. The condition of the reflections… … Fig. 7,01.— View of Venice—Reflections. LTGHT. 397 REFRACTION. THAT light moves in straight hnes is a statement which is true onlywhen the media through which it passes are uniform; for it is easilyproved that when light passes from one medium to another, a change ofdirection takes place at the…
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