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108 direction, it is at , and not at , that we shall see the object from which it proceeds. Every ray of light which passes out of a medium of a certain density into

another of a different density is bent from its primary course, or, in scientific language, it is refracted. The

experiments we made in a former chapter on the properties of the prism are founded on this principle.