Light visible and invisible : a series of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, at Christmas, 1896 (1897)
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916, Royal Institution of Great Britain · New York : Macmillan · leaf 97
itup is not the best that might be selected; sorting it 76 LIGHT LECT. out would be a better phrase. But each of thesephrases carries in its use the assumption that the whitelight is a mixture that can be split up or sorted out intosimpler constituents. That is precisely Newtons greatdiscovery.… … i Fig. 44. natural order.! More than a hundred years afterwards thegreat poet ana dramatist Goethe— master of those whoknow —fought against this idea, and threw the wholeweight of his genius to demonstrate, in his Farbenkhre,the erroneous nature of Newtons views. According tohim the prism does not…
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