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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 11, page id 1677894601:0021
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stalline humour exow Haccer chan betore, the Lihe ill noc bc
retracced enorph, and For ranc of a sufficient Retraction
ill noc converge to the bocrom ot che Ere bur colome
place berond ic, and by consequence paint in the boccom
OfcheEre a contuled Picture, and accordinq to the indistinct-
nels oF ehis Picture che Object mill appear contused. This
isthe reason of che decar of sighe in old Men, and Phews
Why cheir sighe is mended by Spectacles. Forthole Con-
rex. glasses supply che detect oF plumpnels in che Frc, and
by encrealine che Retraction make theRays conrerse looner
(0 asto conrene distinctly ac che bocrom ofche Fre if the
Clals hare a due degree ot conrexier. And the contrarr
happens in Chorc-Siehred Nen Whose Pres are t00 plump.
For che Retraction beins non t00 great, che Rays conrerge
and conrene in che Fyes betore cher come ac thebortom;
and cheretore chePicture made in the borcom and che Vision
caused chereby will noc be distinct, untels che Object be
broughe lo near che Fre as thar cheplace irhere the con-
vergins Rays conrenc may be remoredtotheborom, or
thac ehe plumpness ot che Fve be taken of and che Retra-
ctions diminithed by a Concare-glals of a due degrec ot
Concarier, or la sly chat by AgC the Eye gron Aaccer eill ic
come co a due Figure: For Chore-(ighred Nen lec remore
Objects best in Old AgC, and cheretore chey are accounced
cohare che mostlacting LyCs.
A X. VIII.
An Object seen by Reflexion or Refraction, appears in that place
from ihence the Rays after their last Reflexion or Refraction di-
verge in fallins on the Spectators Fye.
IF che Object A be seen by Rehexion oF a L 0okins- F18. 9.
alS m n, iC Pall appear, noc in ies proper place A, buc
Behinc