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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Optik und Dioptrik LH 37, 2
# Folio 117v, page id 00068531:0234
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Quocunque autem modo denique luminis natura explicetur
videtur nihilominus generate quiddam et omnibus explicandi
modis commune notari posse, ex quo regulas refractionis
et refractionis ducere tentabimus. quemadmodum enim multa
de centro gravitatis, et aequipondio demonstravit Archimedes
causa licet gravitatis non explicata, ita fortasse quaedam
circa lumen demonstrare poterimus ex principiis communibus
etsi speciales  luminis causas ignoremus.
Frimum autem illud sume (1) lumen esse operationem
quandam, et a potentia aliqua sive vi profectam; quoniam videmus
lumen speculis aut lentibus collectum potentissime operari, quare
si singulis ejus radiis nulla inesset potentia, nec inesset collectis.
illud etiam manifestum est () lumen ager vim suam exerere
in objectum corpus ipsumque immutare plus minusve prout plus
Radium autem non in latus
minusve collectum est.
sed in objectum sibi corpus operari, etiam constat, utique plus minusve
ipsi
quod p.
prout corpus magis directe loppositum est, etiam experimenta
satis confirmant.
agens resistentiam patitur
Jam  omnis potentia in objectum
aliquod corpus ae tantum secundem eam directionis suae partem
qua perpendiculariter in ejus superficiem apieratu Exempli causa
potentia secundum directionem AB aget in superficiem DBF
tantum directione Ad, non autem diectione dB. Ad
Porro omnis potentia corpri in corpus
potentiam aliquam communicat
aliquod agens corporie
Et omnis potentia corpori
cuidam communicata minuitur intensione, in ea ratione qua
corpus augetur extensione quemadmodum constat corpus majus
potentia alterius
corporis immoris accepta tardus moveri quam