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" ... double of that by the water ; for the image of the object, though not at all refracted, was yet as much infected with prifmatic colours, as if it had been feen through n glafs wedge only, whofe refracting angle was near thirty degrees. "
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 112
1759
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The Monthly Review ;or Literary Journal.VOLUME XXI.

Several Hands - 1759 - 602 pages
...enumerates feveral experiments he made in a glafs prifmatic vefTel filled with water, with a glafs prilm in it; but as this is the fame with the eighth experiment...object, though not at all refracted, was yet as much infedted with prifmatic colours, as if it had been feen through a glafs prifm, whole refra&ing angle...
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: From ..., Volume 11

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Meteorology - 1809 - 778 pages
...receivedopinion, by showing the divergency of the light by the prism to be almost double of that by the water ; for the object, though not at all refracted^ was yet as much infected with prismatic colours, as if it had been, seen through a. glass wedge only, whose refracting angle was...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences ..., Volume 6

Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...the gJafs prifm to be almoft double without re of that by the water; for the image of the objen.^io* though not at all refracted, was yet as much infected with prifmatic colours as though it had been feen through a glafs wedge only whole angle was near 30 degrees. " This experiment...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts ..., Volume 16

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...divergency of the light by the glafs prifm to be almoft double of that by the water j for the image of the object, though not at all refracted, was yet as...infected with prifmatic colours, as if it had been feen through a glafs wedge only whofe refracting angle was near 30 degrees. 36. This experiment is...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 6

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...the light by the glass prism to be almost double ivilllout of that by the water ; for the ¡mage of the object, {" though not at all refracted, was yet as much infected with prismatic colours as though it had been seen through a glass wedge only whose angle was near 30 degrees....
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The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs, Volume 3

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1834 - 306 pages
...refraction of one should entirely destroy that of the other, the colour was far from being destroyed ; " for the object, though not at all refracted, was yet as much infested with prismatic colours, as if it had been seen through a glass wedge only, whose refracting...
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Distinguished men of modern times [selected from The gallery of portraits ...

Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 538 pages
...refraction of one should entirely destroy that of the other, the colour was far from being destroyed ; " for the object, though not at all refracted, was yet as much infested with prismatic colours, as if it had been seen through a glass wedge only, whose refracting...
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The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets, Philosophers ..., Volume 2

Biography - 1853 - 530 pages
...refraction of one should entirely destroy that of the other, the colour was far from being destroyed ; " for the object, though not at all refracted, was yet as much infested with prismatic colours, as if it had been seen through a glass wedge only, whose refracting...
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The History of the Telescope

Henry C. King - Science - 2003 - 484 pages
...opinion, by showing the divergency of the light by the prism to be almost double of that by the water; for the object, though not at all refracted, was yet as much infected with prismatic colours, as if it had been seen through a glass wedge only, whose refracting angle was near...
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