Mixture of Pigments contrasted with Mixture of Lights


LECTURE II.

Origin of Physical Theories
Scope of the Imagination
Newton and the Emission Theory
Verification of Physical Theories
The Luminiferous Ether
Wave-theory of Light
Thomas Young
Fresnel and Arago
Conception of Wave-motion
Interference of Waves
Constitution of Sound-waves
Analogies of Sound and Light
Illustrations of Wave-motion
Interference of Sound Waves
Optical Illustrations
Pitch and Colour
Lengths of the Waves of Light and Rates of Vibration of the
Ether-particles
Interference of Light
Phenomena which first suggested the Undulatory Theory
Boyle and Hooke
The Colours of thin Plates
The Soap-bubble
Newton's Rings
Theory of 'Fits'