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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 1, page id 1677894601:0011
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Y Delion in this Book is noc to explain che Pro-
perries ot Lighe by Frpocheles, but to propose
and prove them by Realon and Experiments:
In order to which, PMall premise che tollowins Detini-
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DE F LN. I.
DY the Rays of Lioht P understand ils least Parts, and those
as vellSuccessive in the same Lines as Contemporary in se
veral Lines. For ic is manifest chac Lighe consists ot parts
boch Succellire and Contemporary; because in che lame
place rou may Aop chat which comes one moment, and
lec pals chac ihich comes presently atcer; and in che lame
cime rou may Cop ic in any one place, and lec ic pals in
any ocher. For thac pare oF Lighe which is AopE cannOE
be che lame rich chac irhich is lec pals. The lcast Liphe
Or pare ot Lighe, Which may be sope alone wichout che
rest ot che Liphe, or propapaced alone, or do or luster any
chine
cions and Axioms.