Excerpt from Royal Society of Canada: First Annual Meeting, May, 1882; Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting, May, 1906; Address by Prof. Alexander Johnson, M.A., LL. D., D. C. L.

, PresidentWhy Newton didn't see the lines may be explained either by the fact that be trusted to an assistant of whom he speaks or that the quality of his glass was bad, possibly obstructing somewhat the passage of the light, and scattering it internally. It would appear also that for about 70 years after. Newton's death nobody repeated his experiments or else the glass was bad and.the lines were not discovered until Wollaston's time. His paper was published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1802.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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