| Christoph Christian Sturm - 1823 - 416 páginas
...indolence and luxurious dissipation, imitate the industrious silk-worm, and end«avour, by the unremitting and assiduous cultivation of our faculties, to render...colours appear the more vivid as the clouds which are behindare darker, and the drops of rain fall closer. The drops falling continually produce a new rainbow... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 páginas
...fall, and are twice refracted and once reflected. Hence proceed the different colours of the rainbow. These colours appear the more vivid, as the clouds...darker, and the drops of rain fall closer. The drops continually forming produce a new rainbow every moment, and as each spectator observes it from a particular... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 páginas
...fall, and are twice refracted and once reflected. Hence proceed the different colours of the rainbow. These colours appear the more vivid, as the clouds...darker, and the drops of rain fall closer. The drops continually forming produce a new rainbow every moment, and as each spectator observes it from a particular... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - 1833 - 370 páginas
...fall, and are twice refracted and once reflected. Hence proceed the different colours of the rainbow. These colours appear the more vivid, as the clouds which are* behind are darker, and the drops of rains fall closer. The drops continually forming produce a new rainbow every moment, and as each spectator... | |
| William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 514 páginas
...small white spot, an oblong image, called the solar spectrum, is formed, consisting of seven colours, in the following order : red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. These colours may be produced with great brilliancy, but they are not equally bright ; and it is extremely difficult... | |
| 1836 - 422 páginas
...small white spot, an oblong image, called the solar spectrum, is formed, consisting of seven colours, in the following order : red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. These colours may be produced with great brilliancy, but they are not equally bright ; and it is extremely difficult... | |
| Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - 1836 - 412 páginas
...by breaking a ray 01 the qu,n, decompounds it into seven coloured rays, displaying (t»e,rns.elve? in the following order: red, orange, yello.w, green, blue, indigo, and violet. These are, as they will have it, the seven primitive colours ; but as we do not know what is primitive in... | |
| Christoph Christian Sturm - 1845 - 706 páginas
...rainhow: they are seven in numher, and appear in the following order ; red, orange, yellow, green, hlue, indigo, and violet. These colours appear the more vivid as the clouds which are hehind are darker, and the drops of rain fall closer. The drops falling continually produce a new rainhow... | |
| Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - 1846 - 694 páginas
...prism, which, breaking a ray of the sun, decomposes it into seven colored rays, which display themselves in the following order ; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. These, according to them, are the seven primitive colors. But, as I have already observed, I cannot pretend... | |
| Johann Heinrich Jacob Müller - 1847 - 630 páginas
...elongated, the white will totally disappear, and we shall distinguish seven principal Colours in it, in the following order : red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. These colours are termed prismatic, and simple colours of the rainbow. We shall soon see that there are actually... | |
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