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... purpose that the convincing nature of the evidence which the analysis affords should be brought clearly before his audience . He knew that B before long he would have to tell them certain very INTRODUCTION: THE GAMUT OF LIGHT.
... purpose that the convincing nature of the evidence which the analysis affords should be brought clearly before his audience . He knew that B before long he would have to tell them certain very INTRODUCTION: THE GAMUT OF LIGHT.
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... evidence on which the application of the spectroscope depends . It is no new conception to compare light and sound together , or to illustrate the analysis of light by a reference to the combinations of musical notes . In fact , the ...
... evidence on which the application of the spectroscope depends . It is no new conception to compare light and sound together , or to illustrate the analysis of light by a reference to the combinations of musical notes . In fact , the ...
... evidence . Everyone is familiar with the gamut of sound . It is also easy to conceive the orderly succession of notes separated by definite tone - intervals , replaced by an arrangement in which the difference between successive notes ...
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... evidence warrants . In the spectrum we have a succession of colours precisely as in the gamut we have a succession of notes ; but the succession in one case depends on position , in the other on time . The colours of the spectrum are ...
... evidence warrants . In the spectrum we have a succession of colours precisely as in the gamut we have a succession of notes ; but the succession in one case depends on position , in the other on time . The colours of the spectrum are ...
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