On Radiation (Classic Reprint): The Rede Lecture Delivered in the Senate-House Before the University of Cambridge on Tuesday, May 16, 1865 - Couverture souple

Tyndall, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332446337 ISBN 13 : 9781332446339

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from On Radiation

By means of a prism Sir Isaac Newton unravelled the texture of solar light, and by the same simple instrument we can investigate the luminous changes of our platinum wire. In passing through the prism all its rays (and they are infinite in variety) are bent or refracted from their straight course; and as dif ferent rays are differently refracted by the prism, we are by it enabled to separate one class of rays from another. By such prismatic analysis Dr Draper has shown, that when the platinum wire first begins to glow, the light emitted is a pure red. As the glow augments the red becomes more brilliant, but at the same time orange rays are added to the em1ss1on. Augmenting the temperature still further, yellow rays appear beside the orange, after the yellow green rays are emitted, and after the green come, in succession, blue, indigo and violet rays. To display all these colours at the same time the platinum wire must be white-hotmthe impression of whiteness being in fact produced by the simultaneous action of all these colours on the optic nerve.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332446337
• ISBN 13: 9781332446339
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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