Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920 · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 264
may compare to silent notes on an organ.Now if we light a match and observe its spectrum, wefind that it is continuous—that is, from red through thewhole gamut of colour to the visible limit of the violet:there are no gaps, no silent notes, no dark lines, breakingup the band. Another experiment.… … LIGHT. 231 something different. The prism tells us that the spectrum,instead of being continuous as before, now consists oftwo or three lines of light in different parts of thespectrum, as if on an organ, instead of pressing downall the keys, we but sounded one or two notes in thebass, tenor, or…
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