| William Nicholson - 1802 - 752 pagine
...light is never known to follow crooked partages, nor to bend into the (hadow. For the fixed ftars, by the interpofition of any of the planets, ceafe to be feen. And fo do the parts of the fun, by the interpofition of the moon. Mercury, or Venus. The rays which pafs very near to the edge-,... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1802 - 638 pagine
...readily through crooked pipes as " straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked " passages, nor to bend into the shadow. For the fixed stars, " by the interposition of any of the planets, cease to be seen. " And so do the parts of the sun, by the interposition... | |
| Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1909 - 324 pagine
...manifestly, though not so much as the waves of water. But light is never known to follow crooked passages nor to bend into the shadow. For the fixed stars, by the interposition of any of the planets, cease to be seen. And so do the parts of the Sun by the interposition... | |
| Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 pagine
...through crooked pipes as through straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked passages nor to bend into the shadow. For the fixed stars, by the interposition of any of the planets, cease to be seen. And so do the parts of the sun by the interposition... | |
| Lisa M. Dolling, Arthur F. Gianelli, Glenn N. Statile - 2003 - 762 pagine
...through crooked pipes as through straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked passages nor to bend into the shadow. For the fixed stars by the interposition of any of the planets cease to be seen. And so do the parts of the sun by the interposition... | |
| Christiaan Huygens, Thomas Young, Augustin Jean Fresnel, François Arago - 1900 - 190 pagine
...readily through crooked pipes as straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked passages nor to bend into the shadow. For the fixed stars, by the interposition of any of the planets, cease to be seen. And so do the parts of the sun by the interposition... | |
| Alexander Wood - 1983 - 392 pagine
...readily through crooked pipes as straight ones. But light is never known to follow crooked passages, nor to bend into the shadow. For the fixed stars, by the interposition of any of the planets, cease to be seen, and so do the parts of the sun by the interposition... | |
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