 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1802 - 638 pàgines
...II. Prop. 42. " Are not all hypotheses erroneous, in which light is supposed " to consist in pression or motion, propagated through a fluid " medium ? —...stagnating water, passing by the sides of a broad obstacle " which stops part of them, bend afterwards, and dilate them" selves gradually into the quiet... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pàgines
...some part movent, and ¡n some part quietcent, it must needs be a curve line, and so no radius. Grew. Pression or motion cannot be propagated in a fluid...quiescent medium, which lies beyond the obstacle. • Newton's Opticks. QUI'ET, adj., nt, & [va Fr. quiet ; Span, and Port, (¡nieto ; I tal. QUI'ETER,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 pàgines
...part movent, and ¡n some part quietcent, it must needs be a curve line, and so no radius, (¡i'» . Pression or motion cannot be propagated in a fluid...motion, but will bend and spread every way into the quiacent medium, which lies beyond the obstacle. Neu;ton's Opticks. QUI'ET, adj., nt, & QUI'ETER, ns... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 504 pàgines
...would require an infinite force every moment in every shining particle to generate that motion. And if it consisted in pression or motion propagated either...the quiescent medium which lies beyond the obstacle " And it is as difficult to explain by such hypotheses 1 Optics, edit, 3d, 1720, pp. 336, 339. how... | |
 | 1861 - 600 pàgines
...propagated either in an instant or in time,' urged Newton, ' it would bend into the shadow. For pressure or motion cannot be propagated in a fluid in right...quiescent medium which lies beyond the obstacle.' This was always an insurmountable stumbling block to the theory, until the final establishment by \... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1861 - 604 pàgines
...propagated either in an instant or in time,' urged Newton, ' it would bend into the shadow. For pressure or motion cannot be propagated in a fluid in right...quiescent medium which lies beyond the obstacle.' This was always an insurmountable stumbling block to the theory, until the final establishment by Young... | |
 | Anonymous - 1861 - 604 pàgines
...propasatwl in a fluid in right lines beyond ;m obstacle which stops part of liie motion, 'but will bond and spread every way into the quiescent medium w*hich lies beyond the obstacle.' This was always an insurmountable stumbling block to the theory, until the final establishment by Young... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 pàgines
...light are from mow to TUOTTO °f an inch, whereas a wave of sound may be several feet. J "If light consisted in Pression or Motion propagated either...stagnating water, passing by the sides of a broad obstacle which stops part of them, bend afterwards, and dilate themselves gradually into the quiet... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 pàgines
...himself: "Are not all hypotheses erroneous," he asks, "in which light is supposed to consist in pression or motion propagated through a fluid medium ? If it...lies beyond the obstacle. The waves on the surface of stagnant water, passing by the sides of a broad obstacle which stops part of them, bend afterwards... | |
 | 1893 - 630 pàgines
...consisted in motion propagated either in an instant or in time it would bend into the shadow. For pressure or motion cannot be propagated in a fluid in right...spread every way into the quiescent medium which lies outside the shadow." These were his la°t words on the subject. They prove that he could not accept... | |
| |
Pression or Motion cannot be propagated in a fluid in right lines beyond an obstacle which stops part of the Motion, but will bend and spread every way into the quiescent Medium which lies beyond the Obstacle. 
