"Spectroscope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thy lectures learn'd professor, Beyond thy telescope or spectroscope observer keen, beyond all mathematics, Beyond the doctor's surgery, anatomy, beyond the chemist with his chemistry, ...
— Leaves of Grass • Walt Whitman
... to view invisible suns sunk in space, and told their weight, yet the thirst for knowledge was not quenched. Men wished to know what all the suns are made of, whether of substances like those composing the earth, or of kinds of matter entirely different. Then was devised the spectroscope, and with it men audaciously questioned nature in her most secluded recesses. The basis of spectroscopy is the prism, which separates sunlight into seven colors and projects a band of light called a spectrum. This was known for three ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various
... and saw infinite growth perfected through ceaseless struggle. He perceived the superb process of evolution, the Oversoul once more recognizing its own. Fraunhofer, noting the dark lines in the band of sunlight in his spectroscope, divined their identity with the bright lines in the spectra of incandescent iron, sodium and the rest, and so saw the oneness of substance in the worlds and suns, the unity of the materials of the universe. Once again the ...
— The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali • Charles Johnston
... time. The accepted doctrine became this: that the only reason why all the nebula are not resolved into distinct stars is that our telescopes are not sufficiently powerful. But in time came the discovery of the spectroscope and spectrum analysis, and thence Fraunhofer's discovery that the spectrum of an ignited gaseous body is non-continuous, with interrupting lines; and Draper's discovery that the spectrum of an ignited solid is continuous, with no interrupting ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... third eye of wisdom too wide open to take any stock in it. We may like it when we read it in a book, but we wouldn't submit to it. We're too inquiring. If a god leaned out of a cloud of fire and spoke to us to-day we'd put the spectroscope on his cloud, get a moving picture of him, and take his voice on a phonograph record; and we wouldn't believe him if he ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... Sight, role of, See Vision, Brightness Vision, and Color Vision Smell sense of, in labyrinth habits Sniffing by dancer Solutions as ray filters Sorex vulgaris L Sound, reactions to Space perception Spectroscope Spectrum, stimulating value of Standard, candle, light, labyrinth Stine, W M, photometrical measurements Strength of dancer Structure, of brain, of ear, of eye ...
— The Dancing Mouse - A Study in Animal Behavior • Robert M. Yerkes |
