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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 47, page id 1677894601:0057
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So chen, it We would diministr che mixeure oF Che R ayS,
ve are eo diministr che Diamerers of ehe Circles. NOW
these rould be diminithed it the Suns Diameter co nhich
cher ansirer could be made lels than ic is, or (phich comes
co the lame purpose) il without Doors, at a greac distance
teom the Peilm corards the sun, some opakce body vere
Placed, ich a round hole in themidale oF iC, EO InFerCCDE
all che suns Liehit, exceptine (o much as coming from
che middle oF his Body Conld pals chrovoh chat nole eo
the PrIH. FOr (O che Circles AG, BH and che rest,
would noc aur longer antirer co the irhole Dilque ot che
Sun, buc onty to chac pare of ic irhich conld Be scen
From che Prism chrouoh chac hole, that is eo the appareHE
magnieude ot chac hole riemed trom che Prism. Buc chac
phele Circles may ansiver more distinctiy co chac hole a
Fens is eo be placed by che Prism co cast che Image of the
hole, (chac is, every ore oF the Circles AC, B FI, eC.) di-
Rinctly uxon che Paper at P P, atcer such a manner as by
a Lens placed ac a Windoir che Species of Objects abroad
are cast distinctly uxon a Paper wichin che Room, and the
Rectilincar Sides of che oblong solar Image in the fitth
Experimene became distinet withour any Penumbra. IF
ehis be done ic will noc be necessary eo place that hole
very Far of, no noc berond che Windo. And cherctore
instead ot chac hole, Lused che hole in che Window- CHVE
25 FOllOWS.
Exper. 11. In che Suns Lighe lec inco my dartened
Chamber chrouoh a (mall round hole in my Windou-
CHUE, aE abOUE 10 OF 12 Feet From the Window, I placed
a Lens, by irtrich che Image ot che hole mighe be di-
Ctinctly cast uxon a Theec ot irhite Paper, placed ac the
distance ot lix, ciohe, cen or evelre Feet trom che L ens.
for accordine co the difference of che Lenses l’used rarious
distances,