Advanced Reading Book, Literary and ScientificT. Laurie, 1859 - 424 pages |
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LIGHT . VELOCITY OF LIGHT - REFLECTION - REFRACTION - THE EYE - COLOUR . SECT . 1. Some of the ancients believed that light issued from the eye . This is wrong ; the eye sees bodies by the light which it receives from them . Some bodies ...
LIGHT . VELOCITY OF LIGHT - REFLECTION - REFRACTION - THE EYE - COLOUR . SECT . 1. Some of the ancients believed that light issued from the eye . This is wrong ; the eye sees bodies by the light which it receives from them . Some bodies ...
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... light . If a luminous point describe a circle in less than the tenth of a second , it will have reached its starting - point before the impression made at the com- mencement is extinguished , and the circle will appear as a luminous ...
... light . If a luminous point describe a circle in less than the tenth of a second , it will have reached its starting - point before the impression made at the com- mencement is extinguished , and the circle will appear as a luminous ...
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... light from above ; and we all know by experience that the trees and plants which grow on earth want the light of the sun to make them grow . So , doubtless , in this case also , the scrip- tural example of a tree will hold good . Now ...
... light from above ; and we all know by experience that the trees and plants which grow on earth want the light of the sun to make them grow . So , doubtless , in this case also , the scrip- tural example of a tree will hold good . Now ...
Contents
LESSONS IN NATURAL HISTORY | 1 |
THE MATERIALS USED FOR PERFUMERY | 7 |
THOMSON | 10 |
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