Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 391
ents innatural philosophy was his detection of the compositecharacter of light. That a beam of ordinary sun-light is, in fact, a mixture of a very great number ofdifferent colored lights, is a doctrine now familiar to25 386 STORY OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. every one who has the slightest… … SIR ISAAC NEWTON. said that as he sat in a garden an apple fell from atree, and that its fall set him thinking, and that, inconsequence of this train of thought, he found out allabout the law of attraction or gravitation. But the fall of an apple .could not possibly have setNewton thinking, because…
Astronomy
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