 | George Gregory - Astronomy - 1808 - 452 pages
...rays at the line just above the orange, 8tc. and so on to the violet. Now you will recollect, that in a shower of rain there are drops at all heights, and therefore the eye situated at g will see all the different colours. This will account for the first... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Physics - 1813 - 448 pages
...looking at a ruinbow moves his eye, will he see the same colours from the same drop of rain 1 But ma shower of rain, there are drops at all heights and...distances, and though they perpetually change their places, m respect to the sun and the eye, as they fall, still there will be many which will be in such a position... | |
 | George Gregory - Science - 1820 - 458 pages
...red rays at the line just above the orange, &c. and so on to the violet. Now you wilf recollect, that in a shower of rain there are drops at all heights, and therefore the eye situated at g will see all the different colours. This will account for the first... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Industrial arts - 1829 - 654 pages
...in another situation, he will see only by the yellow rays ; in another, by the blue, &c. ; but, as in a shower of rain there are drops at all heights and all distances, all those that are in a certain position with respect to the spectator, will reflect... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Physics - 1838 - 356 pages
...his eye, will he see the same colours from the same drop of rain 1 Bat in a shower of rain, there arc drops at all heights and distances, and though they...to reflect the yellow rays, and so of all the other colours. Fig. 189 "This will be made obvious by fig. 189, where, to avoid confusion, we will suppose... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1845 - 608 pages
..."We have at present described the phenomena only of a single drop ; but it is to be considered that in a shower of rain there are drops at all heights and at all distances ; and therefore the eye situated at o will see all the different colours. All those... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Astronomical instruments - 1845 - 644 pages
..."We have at present described the phenomena only of a single drop ; but it is to be considered that in a shower of rain there are drops at all heights and at all distances ; and therefore the eye situated at G will see all the different colours. All those... | |
 | John Lee Comstock, Richard Dennis Hoblyn - Physics - 1846 - 154 pages
...entered the eye at E, none of the other coloured rays could be seen from the same point. 189. " From this it is evident that, if the eye of the spectator...eye, and as many more to reflect the yellow rays, and s > of all the other colours. 190. " This will be made obvious by Fig. 79, where, to avoid confusion,... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...entered the eye at E, none of the other coloured rays could be seen from the same point. 520. " From this it is evident, that if the eye of the spectator...red rays to the eye, and as many more to reflect the yellowrays, and so of all the other colours. 521. " This will be made obvious by Fig. 211, where, to... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Educational sociology - 1850 - 586 pages
...We have at present described the phenomena only of a single drop ; but it is to be considered that in a shower of rain there are drops at all heights and at all distances, and therefore the eye situated at o will see all the different colours. All those... | |
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From this it is evident that, if the eye of the spectator is moved to another position, he will not see the red ray coming from the same drop of rain, but only the blue, and if to another position, the green, and so of all the others. But in a shower... 