- EAN13
- 9782381116839
- Éditeur
- Human and Literature Publishing
- Date de publication
- 19/10/2023
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
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Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9782381116839
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The oldest historic reference to the rainbow is known to all: "I do set my bow
in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the
earth... And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I shall look upon it, that I
may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of
all flesh that is upon the earth."
To the sublime conceptions of the theologian succeeded the desire for exact
knowledge characteristic of the man of science. Whatever its ultimate cause
might have been, the proximate cause of the rainbow was physical, and the aim
of science was to account for the bow on physical principles...
The condition requisite for their production is, that the drops which
constitute the shower shall all be of nearly the same size. When the drops are
of different sizes, we have a confused superposition of the different colors,
an approximation to white light being the consequence. This second step in the
explanation of the rainbow was taken by a man the quality of whose genius
resembled that of Descartes or Newton, and who eighty-two years ago was
appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution of Great
Britain. I refer, of course, to the illustrious Thomas Young.
in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the
earth... And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I shall look upon it, that I
may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of
all flesh that is upon the earth."
To the sublime conceptions of the theologian succeeded the desire for exact
knowledge characteristic of the man of science. Whatever its ultimate cause
might have been, the proximate cause of the rainbow was physical, and the aim
of science was to account for the bow on physical principles...
The condition requisite for their production is, that the drops which
constitute the shower shall all be of nearly the same size. When the drops are
of different sizes, we have a confused superposition of the different colors,
an approximation to white light being the consequence. This second step in the
explanation of the rainbow was taken by a man the quality of whose genius
resembled that of Descartes or Newton, and who eighty-two years ago was
appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution of Great
Britain. I refer, of course, to the illustrious Thomas Young.
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