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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 109, page id 1677894601:0129
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109
This Experiment succceds al(o, a5 Phare tryed, Wrhen
he Ansle b of thelover Prilm, is a lictle greater than
the Ansle B oE the apper, and betrreen the interior
Angles B and c, there intercedes lome (pace BC, 25 15
reprelented in the Pioure, and the retractino planes
BC. and DC, are neither in directum, nor parallet to
one another. For there is nothins more requisite t0
che success oF this Experiment, than that the rays oF aII
lorts mar be unitormly mixed upon the P’aper in the
place PT. IF the most retransible raus comins from
thesuperior Prim takce up all thespace trom. M toP, the
rars ot the Came Cort irhich come tiom the interior
Prilm ouoht to begin at P, and take up all the rest ofthe
SpaCOFrom thence torards N. TE the least retransible
rars comine trom the superior Prisin take up the (pacC
T, the rars of the sainc kind irtrich come from the
Other Prilim ought tobegin at P, and take ux theremain-
ins Space TN. TEone lort ot the rars rhich hare in-
termediate degrees ot retransibilitr, and come trom the
Cuperior Prilm De extended chroughthe (pace MIO, and
nother FOrt ot those rars throuoh. the (PACC MIR, aud
a thisd Cort of them through the space MS, the lame
Corts oE rays comins tromthe louer Prilm, ousht to il-
luminate the remainine spaces GN, RH, SN relpe
etivelr. Audthe Came is to be understood of aIl the
ottier Ports ofrars. Forthus therars ot every Port will
Belcattered unitormly and erentr throuch the itole
Epace AIHI, and (o beins everr irhere mixt in the lame
proportion, they must erery wrhere produce the lame
COlour. And theretore since by this mixture they pro-
duce irhice in the exterior spaces M P and lH, ther
must also produce irhite in thie interior space PI. Phis
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