e glass ablue patch in a different position to that occupied by thered1. The red and blue rays are clearly both present in the whitelight and are differently refracted by the prism. This dispersionof the light due to the different refrangibility of different rayswas first investigated by Newton and… … Fig. 122. 1 The blue glass may let a little red through as well as blue, but thegreen and yellow will be stopped. 12—2 180 LIGHT. [CH. IX a general way the path of the rays corresponding to a singleincident ray, Robert Hooke describes in his Micrographia,published in 1664, an experiment practically…
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