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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Optik und Dioptrik LH 37, 2
# Folio 9v, page id 00068531:0018
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et intelligi possunt singula
foraminis puncta ventices
totidem onorum lucidorum, quorum
bases circulares sunt in plano, hae
lases, seu hicirculi lucidi, eo majores
sunt, quo magis abest planum
excipiens a foramine, ac proinde
eo magis omnes simul in circu
cum degen unum degenerare
videntur
Haec est
ratiocinatio Claudii Chalesii
quae mihi admodam ingeniosa
videtur. Unde deducit etiam
videatur ejus Opticae lib. 3. Temmat
post prop. 14. item item ipsa
propositio 17. Unde notat
si figura foraminis mutetur
vel etiam opacum aliquid in
foramine suspendatur non ideo
muta figuram solis. idem
Continget, si duo foramina sint
sibi valde vicina. semper autem
supponendum est distantiam exci
pientis superficiei esse notabilem
idem ostendit postea etiam
ficura non hotunda, ut si par
solis a corpore opnco, ut nube,
horizonte, intercissiatur luna
s
in Eblipsi) intercipiatur. Unde m–
genise pono deducit, cur pauciores
cclipsatm.
sint digiti in solis radio per foramen
excepto, quam in corlo et maculae
minores appareant, quam revera sunt
penumbora sed
coincidentia tantum