Stranica 45 [45]
REFLEXIONS IN SMOOTH WATER 23
not see directly), would appear to him at £; and so on for
any other point in the bow adc. |
Lhus we see that the reflexion consists of a smaller arc than
the actual rainbow, tts extremities springing, not from the
ends of the rainbow proper, but from points inside them. Of
course, if E were at a very small height above the water,
and the rain causing the bow at a great distance from E, the
break between the ends of the sky bow and those of the