Timeline for Why does the light passing through a prism get bent in the same direction twice?

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Feb 2, 2022 at 19:52	comment	added	uhoh		Okay, thanks for the reply. I have a hunch that the original drawing was actually drawn in error with the darker material having substantially lower index, but you are right, it certainly doesn't make any difference to your answer. +1
Feb 2, 2022 at 16:03	comment	added	Markoul11		@uhoh Yes this is true. However, the mechanism and conclusions remain the same with the only difference that a denser $n_{2}$ medium would bend light westward of the $n_{1}$ direction shown instead of eastward as shown in the above illustration.
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Dec 24, 2021 at 0:06	comment	added	uhoh		The blue medium in the middle has a lower index of refraction than the material outside (i.e. $n_2 < n_1; \theta_2 > \theta_1$) quite an unusual example and not a good one for the question which is (likely) about a glass prism in air. It's opposite of any of the other illustrations in either link. I'm curious, where is it from, here perhaps?
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Dec 21, 2021 at 17:42	comment	added	Frederik Steinmetz		I upvoted this answer bc. it's correct, but the other one is more detailed.
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Dec 21, 2021 at 14:07	history	answered	Markoul11	CC BY-SA 4.0