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The microscope and its revelations (1891)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 28

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int C, it will not continue in a straight line, butwill be bent to the point I farther away from N. Thus, when aray passes from a rarer to a denser medium it is bent or refractedtowards the normal, and when it passes out of a dense medium intoa rarer one it is bent or refracted airay from the… … Fig. 1.—The refraction of light. The law of sines. more bent away from the normal than if it had passed out of waterinto air. The angle of incidence I C N is connected with the angle of re-fraction RON (as stated above) by what is known as Snells Law ofSines. The constant relation between the two…

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