Elementary Treatise on the Wave-theory of LightLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 - 208 páginas |
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... author then occupied , and without any expecta- tion that its use would extend much beyond the circle of his immediate hearers . It has , however , found its way elsewhere ; and the author has been urged , by some of his fellow ...
... author then occupied , and without any expecta- tion that its use would extend much beyond the circle of his immediate hearers . It has , however , found its way elsewhere ; and the author has been urged , by some of his fellow ...
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... author fears that the style still retains more of the traces of the lecture - room than is consistent with a formal scientific treatise . His only aim has been to present , to those who were conversant with the ele- ments of Mathematics ...
... author fears that the style still retains more of the traces of the lecture - room than is consistent with a formal scientific treatise . His only aim has been to present , to those who were conversant with the ele- ments of Mathematics ...
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... the laws of reflexion and refraction on that supposition . But as Newton was the first to deduce the mathematical consequences of the theory of emission , he has been usually regarded as its author . The wave - PROPAGATION OF LIGHT .
... the laws of reflexion and refraction on that supposition . But as Newton was the first to deduce the mathematical consequences of the theory of emission , he has been usually regarded as its author . The wave - PROPAGATION OF LIGHT .
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Humphrey Lloyd. been usually regarded as its author . The wave - theory wa propounded by Hooke , in the year 1664 ; and was devcope into several of its consequences , a few years later , by Huy gens . Let us examine each of these ...
Humphrey Lloyd. been usually regarded as its author . The wave - theory wa propounded by Hooke , in the year 1664 ; and was devcope into several of its consequences , a few years later , by Huy gens . Let us examine each of these ...
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... adopted in the former edition of this work , the author does not wish to be considered as giving a preference to the principles upon which it depends . principles of Fresnel . The principles , so modified , 140 TRANSVERSAL VIBRATIONS :
... adopted in the former edition of this work , the author does not wish to be considered as giving a preference to the principles upon which it depends . principles of Fresnel . The principles , so modified , 140 TRANSVERSAL VIBRATIONS :
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