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.
Publication : 19 octobre 2023
Edition : 1ère édition
Intérieur : Noir & blanc
Support(s) : eBook [ePub + Mobipocket + WEB]
Contenu(s) : ePub, Mobipocket, WEB
Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub), Marquage social (Mobipocket), DRM (WEB)
Taille(s) : 242 ko (ePub), 687 ko (Mobipocket), 1 octet (WEB)
Langue(s) : Anglais
Code(s) CLIL : 3871, 3051
EAN13 eBook [ePub + Mobipocket + WEB] : 9782381116839