 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1839 - 416 pages
...quantity of light." — Dr. Itrewster, Optics, p. 137. * Sir I. Newton " concluded that the'colours of natural bodies are not qualities inherent in the...certain rays ; and thus to reflect more copiously the rays which are not thus absorbed."— Dr. Brewster's Life of Newton, p. 46. Bodies absorb light... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 334 pages
...and as bodies always appear of the same colour as the light in which they are placed, he concluded, that the colours of natural bodies are not qualities...absorb certain rays, and thus to reflect more copiously the rays which are not thus absorbed. No sooner were these discoveries given to the world than they... | |
 | 1853 - 730 pages
...that all the variety of colours we see in natural objects are not qualities inherent in the objects themselves, " but arise from the disposition of the...absorb certain rays, and thus to reflect more copiously the rays which are not thus absorbed." A most remarkable feature in the character of Newton is the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 876 pages
...spectrum, will appear indifferently red, or green, or blue, we are naturally enough led to conclude, that The colours of natural bodies are not qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, by which they immediately affect 410. our sense, but are mere consequences of that peculiar disposition... | |
 | George Grant - Astronomy - 1849 - 318 pages
...and as bodies always appear of the same colour as the light in which they are placed, he concluded, that the colours of natural bodies are not qualities...absorb certain rays, and thus to reflect more copiously the rays which are not thus absorbed. No sooner were these discoveries given to the world than they... | |
 | George Grant - Astronomy - 1849 - 322 pages
...and as bodies always appear of the same colour as the light in which they are placed, he concluded, that the colours of natural bodies are not qualities...absorb certain rays, and thus to reflect more copiously the rays which are not thus absorbed. SIR ISAAC NEWTON. 55 No sooner were these discoveries given to... | |
 | George Grant - Astronomy - 1849 - 316 pages
...colour as the light in which they are placed, he concluded, that the colours of natural bodies arc not qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, but...absorb certain rays, and thus to reflect more copiously the rays which are not thus absorbed. No sooner were these discoveries given to the world than they... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1870 - 650 pages
...the body that receives tbe spectrum may appear in white light, we are forced to conclude with Newton, that " the colours of natural bodies are not qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, by which they immediately affect our sense, hut are consequences of that peculiar disposition of the... | |
 | Robert Routledge - Science - 1881 - 748 pages
...body cannot present a colour which is not contained in the incident light ; and that the colours of bodies are not qualities inherent in the bodies themselves,...from the disposition of the particles of each body to absorb certain rays, and thus to reflect more copiously the other rays. No sooner were these experiments... | |
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... concluded, that the colours of natural bodies are not qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, but arise from the disposition of the particles of each body to stop or absorb certain rays, and thus to reflect more copiously the rays which are not... 
