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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 62, page id 1677894601:0072
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poine trom whence che Rays Ro is co che distance be-
erreen thac lucid poine and che Lens verr nearty.
Non co examine whecher che difference berrmeen theRe-
Fractions irhich che most retrangible and che least retran-
sible Rays Aoming trom che lame poine sufter in the Ob-
ject. Clasles oF Telelcopes and such like Clases, DC (O OPCAE
a5 is here described, I contrired che Folloins Experi-
ment.
Exper. 16. The Lens which I uled in che second and
eiehcha Tixpcrimenes, being placed Ex Feet and an Tuch dil-
eant Crom any Object, collected che Species ot chat Object
by che mean retransible Rays ac che distance Ot (IX Fece
and an Juch From che Lens on che other Cde. And CherC-
Foreby che Foregoing Rule ic oughero collect the Speciesot
chat Object by che lcast retransible Rays ac the distance ot
SIX Fcer and z 2 Inchestrom the Lens, and by che most re-
Frangible ones ac che distance of fire Fcet and 10: Inches
Erom ic: S0 chac becween the eno Places where these least
and most retransible Rays collect che species, there may
De che distance ot about 5: Inches. For by thac Rule, 25
Sx Feec and an Inch (che distance of che Lens Erom the
lucid Objece) is eo evelre Fece and ewo Tnches (che di-
Rance of che lucid Objece From che Focus of che mean re-
Frangible RaY5) chac is, as one is eo cro, (0 is the 273th
parc oF six Feec and an Inch (che distance becween che L ens
and che Came Focus) to the distance betmeen the Focus ot
che most retransible Rays and che Foeus ot che least re
transible ones, irtich is theretore s = Inches, thac is very
nearly s: Tnches. Non to Hnom irhecher ehis mealure
ras erue, P repeated che second and cioheh Experiment ot
chisBook wich coloured Lighe, irtrich nas less compound-
ed ehan chac I chere made ile OF: FOr L no separared che
HCTCTO.