 ... after reflection that it had " before incidence. Hence the reflected rays, on being produced back, will meet at a point as far behind the reflector as the point of the object is in front of it. Now, because the eye sees objects in the direction from...  Natural Philosophy for High Schools and Academies - Page 173by William James Rolfe, Joseph Anthony Gillet - 1868 - 413 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1865 - 524 pages
...the eye sees objects in the direction from Avhich the rays come to it (Art. 269), the point appears to be as far behind the mirror as it really is in front of it. The representation of the point, seen in the glass, is its image. What has been said of a single point... | |
 | William Rossiter - 1871 - 444 pages
...the mirrors. And for this reason: It is explained (page 296) that any object seen in a mirror appears to be as far behind the mirror as it really is in front of it. This will explain why I see a series of images when I use two mirrors. Thus I place a candle between... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - Physics - 1871 - 510 pages
...because the eye sees objects in the direction from which the rays reach it (Art, 269), the point appears to be as far behind the mirror as it really is in front of it. The representation of the point thus formed, is its image. What lias been said of a single point is... | |
 | William Rossiter - Physics - 1871 - 420 pages
...the mirrors. And for this reason: It is explained (page 296) that any object seen in a mirror appears to be as far behind the mirror as it really is in front of it. This will explain why I see a series of images when I use two mirrors. Thus I place a candle between... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1873 - 876 pages
...exceedingly short time. This idea is employed to shew how it is that a body when reflected appears to be as far behind the mirror as it really is in front of it Distance, too, distorts things, and all the angles of a distant body appear rounded oif; for the images,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1873 - 826 pages
...exceedingly short time. This idea is employed to show how it is that a body when reflected appears to be as far behind the mirror as it really is in front of it. Distance, too, distorts things, and all the angles of a distant body appear rounded off; for the images,... | |
 | William James Rolfe - Physics - 1874 - 550 pages
...those diverging from B, as if they came from b ; and those which come from points between A and j5, as if they came from corresponding points between...a. A part of the light is reflected from the upper Fig. 139. F'g- 138. surface of the mirror in the direction b E, and enters the eye as if it came from... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1881 - 550 pages
...because the eye sees objects in the direction from which the rays reach it (Art. 383), the point appears to be as far behind the mirror as it really is in front of it. The representation of the point thus formed is its image. What has been said of a single point is true... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1881 - 556 pages
...because the eye sees objects in the direction from which the rays reach it (Art. 383), the point appears to be as far behind the mirror as it really is in front ol'it. The representation of the point thus formed is its ima^e. O What has been said of a single point... | |
 | La Roy Freese Griffin - 1882 - 312 pages
...come from a, for the eye sees every ray in the direction in which it enters it. So the light appears to be as far behind the mirror as it really is in front. 673. II. An Object. Let an object AB be placed in front of a plane mirror MN, Fig. 213. Each point... | |
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