A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments: perform'd by Francis Hauksbee, and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M.A.Whiston, William
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A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments: perform'd by Francis Hauksbee, and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M.A.
Whiston, William
Physical instruments; Physics -- Early works to 1800; Physics -- Experiments
_Fig. 2._ Exhibits a plain Method of measuring the Refraction of Fluids at
all Angles, and of proving thereby that it is always in one fixed
Proportion of the Sines, as the next Figure will explain it. For if the
moveable Rule K C L, with its measuring Circle A B D E fix'd by the Prop
E, to a heavy Pedestal F G, in a large Glass A H I D, be so far immers'd
in the Fluid, that the Center C may be in the Surface of the Fluid, and
one of its Legs C L be so far bent from a rectilinear Position, that the
Refraction of the Fluid can just make it appear as if it were in a strait
Line, the Angle B C K, or its equal M C E, is the Angle of Incidence: And
L C E the Angle of Refraction: And L C M the Difference, or the refracted
Angle.
_Fig. 3._ Is for the Illustration of the former Proposition, and shews the
Sines afore-mentioned; as A D or G N (for they are suppos'd equal, and the
Line A C N one strait Line,) is the Sine of the Angle of Incidence, and
F E the Sine of the Angle of Refraction, which Sines do in the same Fluid
at all Angles bear one and the same Proportion to each other; till at
last, if the Refraction be out of a thick Medium into a thin one, and
makes the second Sine equal to the Radius, that Ray cannot emerge at all,
but will be reflected back by the Surface into the same Medium whence it
came, along the Line C R.
_Fig. 4._ Is a Bason of Water, or other Fluid; to shew the common
Experiment of Refraction; where a Shilling, or other Object at A, (which
is so plac'd that it cannot be seen by the Eye at O, the Side of the Bason
C interposing) is readily seen there, as soon as the Water or other Fluid
is put in to the same Bason, and appears to be remov'd to the Point B.
_Fig. 5._ Is the Alteration of a round white Object D, as seen through a
Triangular Glass Prism A B C, by the Eye at G, where the double Refraction
of the Glass at E and F makes the Object appear at _d_; and that as an
oblong colour'd Image; wherein the upper Part is made by the violet Rays,
which are most refrangible; and the lower by the red Rays, which are least
so; and the intermediate Parts by those that are refrangible in a mean
Degree; after the Order of the Colours of the Rainbow.
_Fig. 6._ Shews the Nature of a multiplying Glass A D, and its Plains A B,
B C, C D, _&c._ and the Reason why the different Refraction of every
oblique Plain, as A B, C D, _&c._ exhibits the same Object K as a
different Object k, k, _&c._ according to the Number of the oblique
Plains: While the direct Plain B C shews it still in its own Place: And
while the Convolution of the Glass on the Axis K L removes all the oblique
Images, but does not remove the direct one, on Account of the Change of
the Position of those oblique Plains, and of the unchanged Position of the
direct Plain.
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