The document describes an experiment comparing the refraction of light through glass and water. The experimenter ground a glass wedge to an angle of less than 30 degrees and made a matching water wedge. When light passed through both, the refraction was equal but the divergence of colors was much greater for the glass. This demonstrated that the divergence of light due to different refrangibility was not equal for glass and water. The experimenter then adjusted the angle of the water wedge until the color divergence matched.
The document describes an experiment comparing the refraction of light through glass and water. The experimenter ground a glass wedge to an angle of less than 30 degrees and made a matching water wedge. When light passed through both, the refraction was equal but the divergence of colors was much greater for the glass. This demonstrated that the divergence of light due to different refrangibility was not equal for glass and water. The experimenter then adjusted the angle of the water wedge until the color divergence matched.
The document describes an experiment comparing the refraction of light through glass and water. The experimenter ground a glass wedge to an angle of less than 30 degrees and made a matching water wedge. When light passed through both, the refraction was equal but the divergence of colors was much greater for the glass. This demonstrated that the divergence of light due to different refrangibility was not equal for glass and water. The experimenter then adjusted the angle of the water wedge until the color divergence matched.
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have been greatly diminithed, or intirely redified ; and there would have been a very great refraCtion without colour, as now I had a great difcolouring without refraftion: but the inconveniency of f6 tarp an angle, as that of the veffel snuff have been, to bring the light to an equal divergency with that of the glafs rifm, whole angle was about 6o de- grees, made tt neceffary to try Come experiments of the fame kind, by (mallet angles. I ground a wedge of common plate glare to a.n angle of fotnewhat Ids than st degrees, which re- fratted the mcan rays about I degrees. I then made a wedge-like nail, as in the former expaiment, and filling it with watcr, managed it fo, t6t it re- fraffed equally with the Oafs wedge ; or, in other words, the difference of their refrktions was no- thing, and objeCts viewed thro them appeared nei- ther railed nor depreffid. This was done with an intent to obferve the fame thing over again in there fmall angles, which I had ken in the paw: and it appeared indeed the fame in proportion, or as near as I could judge; for notwithfianding the refraftions were hue alfo equal, yct the divergency of the co- lours by the glafs was valily greater than that by the water, ; for objeds totsaby tek h two refratlions were very much difcoloured.. Now this was a demon- Itration, that the divergency of the light, by the different refrangibility, was far from being equal in theft two refrattions. I alfo irons the polition of the coloun, that the excefi of divergency was in the glafs ; So that I increaled the angle of the water- wedge, by different trials, till the divergency of the . You. so. 5B light