The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have b… - Thomas Young
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have b…
- Thomas Young
Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt. - Thomas Young
Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt.
You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousa… - Thomas Young
You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousa…
Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether. - Thomas Young
Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.
It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture… - Thomas Young
It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture…
If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the sp… - Thomas Young
If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the sp…
When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy. - Thomas Young
When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.
Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combin… - Thomas Young
Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combin…
But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye by different r… - Thomas Young
But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye by different r…
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