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 spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of the retina, the red, the green, and the violet; while the rays occupying the intermediate spaces are capable of producing mixed sensations, the yellow those which belong to the red and green, and the blue those which belong to the green and violet.
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…
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Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt. - Thomas Young
Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to enter a narrow channel… - Thomas Young
Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to enter a narrow channel…
Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether. - Thomas Young
Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.
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