 | Friedrich Christian Accum - Chemistry - 1808 - 428 pages
...another, it continues to move on, without changing its direction. But the case is different when it passes obliquely from one medium into another of a different density ; it is then bent from its first direction, and assumes a new one ,- it is said to be refracted. When it passes... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Physics - 1813 - 448 pages
...body thiough which the light passes is c.illed the medium, and it is found in all cases, " that where a, ray of light passes obliquely from one medium into another of a different density, it is refracted, or turned out of its former course." This is illustrated in the above examples, the water... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 506 pages
...transparent medium into another, it continues to move without changing its direction ; but, when it passes obliquely from one medium into another of a different density, it is thrown more or less out of its old direction, and is said to be refracted. The refraction is towards... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Chemistry - 1821 - 806 pages
...into another, it continues to move without changing its direction ; but, when it passEffect of Jif- es obliquely from one medium into another of a different density, it is imperil de nil- » * i»i* • _!• •» /• tici in the me- thrown more or less out 01 its old... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1822 - 158 pages
...spoken. SECT. IV. Of Phenomena arising from the Earth's Atmosphere. 125. It is found by experiment, that when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium into another of different density, as from air into water, or from water into air, it is bent out of a straight course,... | |
 | Edward Riddle - Nautical astronomy - 1824 - 572 pages
...depression. The correction for dip is therefore subtracting; it may be taken, by inspection, from Table 7. When a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium into another of greater density, it is bent towards the perpendicular at the point at which it enters. This bending... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1825 - 151 pages
...beneficial. SECT. IV. Of Phenomena arising from the Earth's- Atmosphere. 131. It is found by experiment, that when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium into another of different density, as from air into water,- or from- water into air, it is bent out of a straight course,... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Pharmaceutical chemistry - 1825 - 644 pages
...affections of light are foreign to this work, its chemical relations are to be alone considered. : 383. When a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium into another of greater density, it is bent towards the perpendicular ; but if the second medium be of less density,... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1829 - 202 pages
...benefcial. SECT. IV. Of Phenomena arising from the Earth's Atmosphere. 131. It is found by experiment, that when a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium into another of different density, as from air into water, or from water into air, it is bent out of a straight course,... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Physics - 1830 - 308 pages
...body through which the light passes is called the medium, and it is found in all cases, that where a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium into another of a different density, it is refracted, or turned out of its former course. This is illustrated in the above examples, the water... | |
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... a ray of light passes obliquely from one medium into another of a different density, it is refracted, or turned out of its former course. 
