The principles of light and color: including among other things the harmonic laws of the universe, the etherio-atomic philosophy of force, chromo chemistry, chromo therapeutics, and the general philosophy of the fine forces, together with numerous discoveries and practical applications .. . ea->iMffl shells (see fig. 14), in curlsof hair, etc. It is perhapsthe most beautiful of allsimple continuous lines, and, as will be seen hereafter (chapterIII.), is the most common form in the universe. It not only hasa leading center for the whole form, but is composed, geometri-cally speaking, of an i
The principles of light and color: including among other things the harmonic laws of the universe, the etherio-atomic philosophy of force, chromo chemistry, chromo therapeutics, and the general philosophy of the fine forces, together with numerous discoveries and practical applications .. . ea->iMffl shells (see fig. 14), in curlsof hair, etc. It is perhapsthe most beautiful of allsimple continuous lines, and, as will be seen hereafter (chapterIII.), is the most common form in the universe. It not only hasa leading center for the whole form, but is composed, geometri-cally speaking, of an infinite number of circles as points of bothunity and diversity. Undulations not only progress in size but*^ in delicacy of form as they advance. The fern Jvi*&> branch, fig. 52, has not only gradation of size as a whole, but of each branch and part of a branch,and has also many gradations of direction. consists of gradations of gradations, which arejoSP^^fe^^ formed by superposing compound sounds on sim-^^^^^^^ pie sounds and causing their vibrations to be re-corded in lamp-black by a graphic instrument Fig. 51. Undulations. Fit \2. A Fern. GRADATION OR PROGRESSION. 19 Fie Vibrations of compoundsounds. OWWWVVvMft Fig. 54. Combination of twoparallel vibratory Fg- 55- came from the Revised by Savart. Fig. 54 has gradations of size and direction,and was written in lamp-black by a combination of tuning 55 is an example of progressive rings of colored light,which were -produced by electricity, as seenand drawn by an artist and quoted by Kidder of New York, in his pamph-let on Electro-Allotropo-Physiology :— Placingthe sponge of an electrical machine to myleft eye, and making the current strong, I sawstars in about four seconds. Rings vibrating:ends, growing weaker as they approached thecenter, where they died out entirely. This was very beauti-ful. It commenced with yellow at the first ring, at about thefourth or fifth ring they became re
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