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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 53, page id 1677894601:0063
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contusedly detined, (o chat Lcould noc distinguiltr cheir smat
ler Pares trom onc anocher. I placed also che L etters oF a
lmall Princ one while in che Hlomogencal Lighe and chen
in che Heterogencal, ana riemins chem chrouoh a Prilm,
cher appeared in the larrer case (0 contuled and indistinct
chac L could noc read chem; buc in che former they ap-
Peared (0 distinct chac l could read readily, and choughe
L.Cam chem as distinct a5 irhen I viered chem wich ny
naked Ere. In boch cases I ricred che lame Objects
chrouoh che lame Prism ac che lame distance trom me and
in che lame Sicuation. There ras no difference buc in the
Lighe by irhich che Objects iere illuminated, and ertich
in onc case mas simple and in che ocher Compound, and
cheretore che distinet Vision in che former case and contu-
sed in che lacter conld arise trom noching elle chan trom
chac difference ot che Lighes. Which prores che wrhole
Propolirion.
And in chele chree Experiments ic is Further verr remar-
hable, chac che Colour ot Homogeneal Lighe ras nerer
chansed by che Retraction.
DROP. VI. THCOT. V
The Sine of. Incidence of every Ray considered apart, is to ils Sine
of. Refraction in a siven Ratio.
ITI A Y every Ray considered apare is constant to
it Celt in Pome certain derree ot Retrangibilier, is
Cufticienely manifest out of wrhat has been Caid. Thole
Rays which in che Arst Retraction are ac equal Incidences
most retracted, arc also in che follomine Retractions at
equal Incidences most retracted; and (0 oF che least R e-
trangible, and che rest which hare auy mean degree ot
Retran-