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 .. . , while the other atomic linesare rigid and cause the light to bend in their own point may be rendered more clear perhaps by means of , which consists of lines of atoms whose spirillae pass aroundthem very diagonally. We will supposethat, by means of light, electricity, orsome other fo
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 .. . , while the other atomic linesare rigid and cause the light to bend in their own point may be rendered more clear perhaps by means of , which consists of lines of atoms whose spirillae pass aroundthem very diagonally. We will supposethat, by means of light, electricity, orsome other force sweeping in the direc-tion of 1,2, the spirillae of the layers ofatoms in that direction should become soexcited and potent as to draw the neigh-boring lines of atoms around in the di-rection of their own forces, or from 4 to3. Such lines constitute transverse diag-onals, as has been explained in ChapterThird, and doubtless have converse lines contiguous to them sothat all the rays of light can be combined in the same now, streams of solar ether should strike at 1 and 3, it isobvious that they would be refracted in different directions, theone not far from 2, and the other not far from 4, unless theatomic lines were so under the control of light as to yield en-. Fig. i7s. POLARIZED LIGHT. 407 tirely to its direction, which is evidently not the case withtourmaline, Iceland spar, and various other crystals. If weshould suppose a beam of solar ethers to approach at right an-gles to the line 3, 4, and strike at the points 1, 3, is it notevident that it would deflect the line 3, 4, much more than itwould the line I, 2, from striking the former squarely, and thelatter only obliquely? In other words, may not the line 2, 4, bethrown so far around as to cause what is called an extraordinaryrefraction, while I, 2, is thrown into merely refraction ?Fig. 179, which I take from Guillemins Forces of Nature, will
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