"Dispersive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hydrogen and other gases. So bright was it that Jansen exclaimed: "Je verrai ces lignes-la en dehors des eclipses." And the next day he observed the lines at the edge of the uneclipsed sun. Huggins had suggested this observation in February, 1868, his idea being to use prisms of such great dispersive power that the continuous spectrum reflected by our atmosphere should be greatly weakened, while a bright line would suffer no diminution by the high dispersion. On October 20th Lockyer,[10] having news ...
— History of Astronomy • George Forbes |
