Six lectures on light : delivered in America in 1872-1878 (1886)
Tyndall, John, 1820-1893 · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 90
on. He n. LONGITUDINAL WAVES. 59 discovered a multitude of similar cases, and determinedtheir precise conditions. On the assumption thatlight was wave-motion, all his experiments on inter-ference were explained ; on the assumption that lightwas flying particles, nothing was explained. In thetime of… … exist. The waves, he contended, would bend roundopaque bodies and produce the motion of light behindthem, as sound turns a comer, or as waves of waterwash round a rock. It was proved that the bendinground referred to by Newton actually occurs, but thatthe inflected waves abolish each other by their…
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