"Visible spectrum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the visible spectrum, however, there are waves still longer and shorter, incapable of arousing the retina, though the very long waves, beyond the red, arouse the sensation of warmth from the skin, and the very short waves, beyond the violet, though arousing none of the senses, do effect the photographic plate. ...
— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth
... table is perfectly transparent to light, that is to say, all waves within the limits of the visible spectrum pass through it without obstruction; but for the waves of slower period, emanating from our heated plate of copper, enormous differences of absorptive power are manifested. These differences illustrate in the most unexpected manner the influence ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
... in Auriga was announced, in February, 1892, astronomers were better prepared to observe it spectroscopically, as it was now possible by means of photography to study the ultra-violet part of the spectrum which to the eye is invisible. The visible spectrum was very like that of Nova Cygni of 1876, but when the wave-lengths of all the bright lines seen and photographed at the Lick Observatory and at Potsdam were measured, a strong resemblance to the ...
— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball |
