Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 350
344 READING THE LIGHT. 345 spectrum with its various colors; and trie raindropsare the prisms which reflect and decompose the light.Optical science was long satisfied with this glanceinto the interior constitution of light, occupying itselfwith the phenomena of the prismatic colors, and the-orizing… … THE SPECTROSCOPE. in admitting the sunlight that they become visible.Dr. Wollaston, supposing them to be merely naturalboundaries of the different color-bands, inquired nofurther; and there for a while the matter rested. Notmany years later, in 1815, the matter was taken up bya German optician and…
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