Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 114
uld altogether fail to emerge from the water.No luminous ray can pass from water into air if it makes agreater angle with the perpendicular than 480 35. Suppose AB TOTAL REFLECTION 77 (page 78) to be the water level of a tank. A ray leaving F will bebent so as to reach C, a ray from G will reach D,… … Sacramento perch totally reflected in aquarium.A, surface of water. such as I, undergoing total reflection, afford us our second imageof a fish at rest near the surface of water: to observe this kind ofimage we need not journey to the New York Aquarium; withpatience we may behold it in a small home…
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