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 .. . nt, and that both the ether and atmospheremust be subject to many undulations from the passing of comets,worlds, nebulous matter, and meteorological conditions, just aswater is subject to waves when a vessel sweeps through it, isalso evident; but what has that to do with the question ofwhether light is a su
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 .. . nt, and that both the ether and atmospheremust be subject to many undulations from the passing of comets,worlds, nebulous matter, and meteorological conditions, just aswater is subject to waves when a vessel sweeps through it, isalso evident; but what has that to do with the question ofwhether light is a substance or not a substance ? The phenom-ena of interference, as well as other phenomena, may take place 4io CHROMO-PHILOSOPHY. from these atmospheric waves, and also, possibly, from the spiralwaves of fluid ether as they emerge from a line of atoms. If thedifferent colors are caused simply by waves of different size andfrequency, as our theorists suppose, how is it that some wavesare warm and exciting and expanding like the red, while othersare cool and contracting like the blue ? What power in heavenor earth can formulate waves of the exact size and rapidity toconstitute red, and what to constitute violet, or the countlessother tints and shades which must have their exact processes. Fig. rSi. Propagation and Reflection of Liquid Waves. and their exact sizes kept up through all the millions of mileswhich constitute their path-way in space ? By the etherio-atomiclaw we may see how the definite size of the spiral color-chan-nels regulates the color, with just such a number of vibrationswhich can be continued from the distant stars to our earth. Ifthe polarized lines become broken by means of atmosphericwaves, they are formed again with lightning-speed, and so thelight is uninterrupted. 2. Every boy knows that when different stones are throwninto the water near each other, the waves thus aroused more or THE UNDULATORY THEORY. 411 less impede or obliterate each other. He knows, too
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