Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 323
rf«« of the tame color IApplications, 320 FOlULAI! PHYSICS. The Rainbow. 313. The Rainbow is a brilliantly colored arc, seenafter a shower opposite the sun. The colors being disposed in the same order as in thesolar spectrum, it indicates that the rainbow is due to re-fraction. Such is shown to be… … Fig. £0S). internally reflected, and then emerge, undergoing a secondrefraction. The result is that the emergent light is resolvedinto the seven prismatic colors, which, reaching the eye fromdifferent drops, give rise to the colors that are observed. The ray Avhich enters the drop, «, for example,…
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