If the fact were as he states it, the difference in the refrangibility of the yellow-red and violet would be greater than in the case of the yellow-red and blue.
Whether this hypothesis prove to be the correct one or not, it is certain that there exists a set of rays of far higher refrangibility than those seen in the ordinary Newtonian spectrum.
Sir William Herschel, may be consulted:-- Investigation of the powers of the prismatic colours to heat and illuminate objects; with remarks that prove the different refrangibility of radiant heat.
The optical axes do not altogether coincide with the principal axes of conductibility for heat; but this appears to be due merely to slight differences in the rate of progression, or the refrangibility of the luminous and calorific rays.
Experiments on the refrangibility of the invisible rays of the sun, p.
We next study the utilization of this power of refraction in the manufacture of lenses to overcome the unequal refrangibility of the colored rays of light.
There would be, then, much disadvantage in making use of elliptical glasses or long telescopes, since the means have been found, in a great measure, to correct the effect produced by the different refrangibility of the rays of light.
The third is the different refrangibility of the light; for the most refrangible rays do not collect in the same place with the lesser.
A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents.
The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light.
Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another.
It was simply so lowered in refrangibility as to escape the visual range.
Here, by the intervention of the platinum, the refrangibility is raised, so as to render the non-visual visual, and to this change I have given the name of Calorescence.
It corresponds in refrangibility with the yellow band of the spectrum.
This shows that the connexion between the refrangibility of light and its wave-length does not obey any simple law, but depends on the nature of the refracting medium.
This confirmed his previous conclusion that the rays increase in refrangibility from red to violet.
This, however, is not the case with ordinary refracting media, the refrangibility generally increasing more and more rapidly as the wave-length diminishes.
Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another.
Defn: A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents.
To define the Refrangibility of the several sorts of homogeneal Light answering to the several Colours.
And a greater or less Refrangibility of Rays, is their Disposition to be turned more or less out of their Way in like Incidences on the same Medium.
Now were it not for this different Refrangibility of Rays, Telescopes might be brought to a greater perfection than we have yet describ'd, by composing the Object-glass of two Glasses with Water between them.
Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described?
The Perfection of Telescopes is impeded by the different Refrangibility of the Rays of Light.
But you will say, if the Errors caused by the different Refrangibility be so very great, how comes it to pass, that Objects appear through Telescopes so distinct as they do?
The confusion resulting from the unequal refrangibility of the differently coloured rays is said to be due to the chromatic aberration of the lens.
Experiments on the Refrangibilityof the Invisible Rays of the Sun.
The extreme richness of the electric light in invisible rays of low refrangibility was demonstrated, one-eighth only of its radiation consisting of luminous rays.
In small thicknesses water is sensibly transparent to all kinds of light; but, as the thickness increases, the rays of low refrangibility are first absorbed, and after them the other rays.
Here, by the interposition of the platinum foil, the refrangibility of the ultra-red rays is so exalted as to render them visible.
He, by the interposition of a proper medium, so lowered the refrangibility of the ultraviolet rays of the spectrum as to render them visible.
Experiments on therefrangibility of the invisible rays of the sun.
Investigation of the powers of the prismatic colors to heat and illuminate objects, with remarks that prove the different refrangibility of radiant heat.
Stokes considered it probable that this lowering of the refrangibility of the light was a general law which held for all substances.
Stokes's first paper "On the Change of the Refrangibility of Light" appeared in 1852.
Stokes's law is not obeyed, for a fluorescent spectrum can be produced by means of homogeneous light of lower refrangibility than a great part of the fluorescent light.
In all the substances examined by Stokes, the fluorescent light appeared to be of lower refrangibility than the light which excited it.
Sir David, somewhat startled at the originality of the idea, paused awhile, and then hesitatingly referred to the refrangibility of rays, and the angle of incidence.
Sir John, grown more confident, adduced the example of the Newtonian reflector, in which the refrangibility was corrected by the second speculum, and the angle of incidence restored by the third.
The principle that the refrangibilityof light is altered by end-on motion was enunciated by Christian Doppler of Prague in 1842.
For to every Degree of Refrangibilitybelongs a different Colour, by Prop.
Nor afterwards from the adjacent quiet Medium: These two Propositions are manifest de Facto in Homogeneal Light, whose Colour and Refrangibility is not at all changeable, either by Refraction, or by the Contermination of a quiet Medium.
The Species of Colour, and Degree of Refrangibility proper to any particular sort of Rays, is not mutable by Refraction, nor by Reflection from Natural Bodies, nor by any other Cause, that I could yet observe.
Nay, I wonder'd, that seeing the difference of Refrangibility was so great, as I found it, Telescopes should arrive to that perfection they are now at.
To the same degree of Refrangibility ever belongs the same Colour, and to the same Colour ever belongs the same degree of Refrangibility.
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