Attempts have been made, principally founded on some remarks of Huygens, to show that Descartes had learned the principles of refraction from the manuscript of a treatise by Willebrord Snell, but the facts are uncertain; and, so far as Descartes founds his optics on any one, it is probably on the researches of Kepler. [Please select]
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Snell's The Age of Chaucer; Lounsbury's Studies in Chaucer (3 vols.) [Please select]
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And naething now to big a new ane O' foggage green, And bleak December's winds ensuin', Baith snell and keen. [Please select]
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And so he did; and handy and clever, and swift and tender as any woman, was that horny-handed, snell, peremptory little man. [Please select]
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And so he did; handy and clever, and swift and tender as any woman, was that horny-handed, snell, peremptory little man. [Please select]
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I've recaught many a once-lost specimen with my snell in its lip; these in both fresh water and salt water. [Please select]
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=--"For trout, use a black leader and have your hooks snelled with black gut." [Please select]
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The principle, though a simple one, escaped him, and it was first discovered by Willebrord Snell, about the year 1621. [Please select]
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Snell's law of refraction is one of the corner-stones of optical science, and its applications to-day are million-fold. [Please select]
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"That is the situation," he admitted, freeing his line and trying to catch the crinkled silvery snell of the new leader. [Please select]
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"Which reminds me," said I, "of a certain unpopular gentleman of the name of Fell, or Pell, or Snell." [Please select]
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