 | William Robert Grove - Force and energy - 1855 - 300 pages
...that all bodies would have the propei-ties of solar phosphorus if light consisted in the undulations of ordinary matter, it may be answered that so many...short that the eye cannot detect its duration ; the fact of the phosphorescence by insolation of a large number of bodies, is in itself evidence of the... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1858 - 662 pages
...that all bodies would have the properties of solar phosphorus if light consisted in the undulations of ordinary matter, it may be answered that so many...short that the eye cannot detect its duration ; the fact of the phosphorescence by insolation of a large number of bodies is in itself evidence of the... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1858 - 680 pages
...that all bodies would have the properties of solar phosphorus if light consisted in the undulations of ordinary matter, it may be answered that so many...time so short that the eye cannot detect its duration ; tho fact of the phosphorescence by insolation of a large number of bodies is in itself evidence of... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1858 - 614 pages
...that all bodies would have the properties of solar phosphorus if light consisted in the undulations of ordinary matter, it may be answered that so many...property, and with so great variety in its duration, that nan conslat all may not have it, though for a time so short that the eye cannot detect its duration... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1859 - 448 pages
...that all bodies would have the properties of solar phosphorus if light consisted in the undulations of ordinary matter, it may be answered that so many...duration." The above conjecture has been substantially verified by the recent experiments of M. Niepce de St. Victor, of which the following is a short résumé:... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1859 - 478 pages
...that all bodies wonld have the properties of solar phosphorns if light eonsisted in the undulations of ordinary matter, it may be answered that so many...and with so great variety in its duration, that non eonstat. all may not have it, thongh for a time so short that the eye eaunot deteet its duration."... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1859 - 450 pages
...that all bodies would have the properties of solar phosphorus if light consisted in the undulations of ordinary matter, it may be answered that so many...property, and with so great variety in its duration, that nan constat all may not have it, though for a time so short that the eye cannot detect its duration."... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - Science - 1859 - 328 pages
...solar phosphorus if light consisted in the undulations of ordinary matter, it may be answered that BO many bodies have this property, and with so great variety in its duration, that 'ton constat all may not have it, though for a time so short that the eye cannot detect its duration."... | |
 | William Robert Grove - Force and energy - 1862 - 308 pages
...that all bodies would have the properties of solar phosphorus if light consisted in the undulations of ordinary matter, it may be answered that so many...so short that the eye cannot detect its duration. ME Becquerel has made many experiments which support this view; the fact of the phosphorescence by... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - Force and energy - 1865 - 500 pages
...matter, it may be answered that so many bodies have this property, and with so great a variety in ite duration, that non constat all may not have it, though...so short that the eye cannot detect its duration. ME Becquerel has made many experiments which support this view ; the £act of the phosphorescence by... | |
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To the main objection of Dr. Young that all bodies would have the properties of solar phosphorus if light consisted in the undulations of ordinary matter, it may be answered that so many bodies have this property, and with so great variety in its duration,... 
