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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 25, page id 1677894601:0035
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che Imase P T ouohe to be again dilated and spread Side-
rays by che cransverse Retraction oF the lecond Prilm, (9
25 co compole a toursquare Imasc, such as is reprelented
aC I. For che berrer understandinq of wrhich, lec the Image
PT be distinonilhed into AVC Cqual PATES POR, RORL,
LRSMI, NISVN, NVT. And by che lame irregularitr
chat che Orbicular Lighe Y is by che Retraction ot che Arst
Prilm dilared and drann out inco a lone Image P P, chc
che Lighe P OK which cakes up a space ot the lame lenoth
and breadch rich che Lighe Y oughe to be by che Retra-
ction et che second Prism dilaced and dranon oue into che
lone Image r g kP, and che LighEK O R L into the lonp
Image kgrI, and the LighES L RR SMI, NISV N, NV T
into (o manr ocher lons Images lr5 m, msVn, nV +I; and
all chese lons Images vould compose che Fourlquare Imasc
I. Thus ic oughe to be ivere crery Ray dilaced By RC-
traction, and spread into a criangular Superticies of RaYS
direroins from che Point of Retraction. For che lecond
Retraction vould spread che Rays one ay as much as the
trst dorh anocher, and (0 dilace che Image in breadth 25
much a5 che tirst doch in lenech. And che Came chins
oughe co happen, vere lome Rays calually retracted more
chan ochers. Buc the Fvene is ocherwise. TheImage P I
was noc made bronder by the Retraction ot che second
Prilm, buc ontr became oblique, 25 tis reprelenced ac pt,
itS uxper end P beins by che Retraction eranllared 10 2
oreater distance chan ies lover end T. S0 chen che Liohe
which ene cormards che upper end P oF che ImasC, Wa5
(aE equal Incidences) more retracted in che second Prilm
than che Lighe wrhich cended corrards che lover end I.
chac is che ble and rioler, chan the red and rellor; and
cheretore mas more Retrangible. Phe Came Liphe was by
the Retraction oF che first Prim cranllated Furcher trom the
Place