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Show DIFFERING VIEWS OF RAINBOW Declaration Made That No Two Per. soni Can See the Same Diaplay In the Same Way. Misconceptions concerning the rain-how rain-how are inuny, according to Prof. W. J. Humphreys. Ph., U., of Franklin Institute. In-stitute. Philadelphia. Clone observations observa-tions have shown that not even the ei-lors are always the SHine. Neither Is the band of any color of constant angular width, nor is the total breadth of the several rotors uniform. But perhaps the most interesting feature which Professor Humphreys brings out Is the fact that no two persons see the same rainbow ; there are as many rainbows as there are persons looking at them. It seems. Theory teaches and ordinary experience experi-ence shows as the observe! remain stationary or moves, so also, other things being equal, does his rainbow. If then, two observers Initially close together should move In opposite directions, di-rections, each would find his rainbow responding In the same sense s his shadow, and presently the two positions, posi-tions, and, therefore, the Identity of the two bows, would become unquestionably unquestion-ably different, from which It follows that, as the eyei? of the two observers must always be separated by a greater great-er or less distance, their bows must also be correspondingly separated and different positions are produced by different raindrops. In short, since the rainbow Is a spe- j clal distribution of colors (produced ; In a particular way) with reference to a definite point the eye of the observerand ob-serverand os no single distribution (other than uniform and infinite) can be the same for two separate points, |