Literary notes about spectrum (AI summary)
The word "spectrum" in literature assumes a dual role, both carrying scientific rigor and evoking rich, metaphorical imagery. In its scientific guise, it refers to the dispersion of light into its constituent hues—a process observed in phenomena like the solar and auroral spectra and explained through prisms and refractive indices [1, 2, 3, 4]. At the same time, literary authors harness "spectrum" to signify a broad continuum or range of qualities, emotions, or states, as seen when it describes human attributes or abstract concepts such as the varying intensities and hidden depths of character or experience [5, 6, 7]. By invoking this term, writers seamlessly bridge the objective observation of chromatic arrays with the subjective portrayal of life's multifaceted canvas [8, 9, 10].
- It does not appear as a dark line in the solar spectrum.
— from Pleasant Ways in Science by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor - Newton completed his proof by synthesis in this way: The spectrum now before you is produced by a glass prism.
— from Six Lectures on LightDelivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall - A lens has most bending effect on violet rays and least on red, and the other colours of the spectrum are intermediately influenced.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - Wherefore I contrived to make the Spectrum of Colours shorter than before, so that both its Ends might be nearer to the Axis of the Lens.
— from Opticks : by Isaac Newton - Trying to eliminate the red out of His spectrum, instead of ennobling and glorifying it all with the Sun of the Soul.
— from Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story by Elinor Glyn - Then he fell back in it again and stared upon me as if I was a spectrum rose out of a grave.
— from The Torch and Other Tales by Eden Phillpotts - Of this dream Myers observed:—‘We seem to have reached the utmost intensity of sleep faculty within the limits of our ordinary spectrum.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz - But the three zones mingle and amalgamate along the edges, like the colors in the solar spectrum.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo - Gissing drew amazing trains, elephants, ships, and rainbows, with the spectrum of colours correctly arranged and blended.
— from Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley - The sun did well to spread that summer sky at eventide with all the pageantry of color the spectrum knows.
— from In the Sixties by Harold Frederic
