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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 71, page id 1677894601:0247
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fractmore thanotbers of this same densty
 sulphat cous oddies re-
are verus.
eartu proportionat to ihe densities of the same
L et AB represent the retractins plane TuxFaCC OF any
Gody, and Lea sus ccense ters nglels uxon the
Body in C, 50 that che Anele AC I may be intinitely
licele, and let C. R bethe retracted ray. From a given
point B perpendicular to the retractins surtace crect
BR mectinq with the retracted rar C R in R, and it
C. R revresent the motion of the retracted rar, and this
motion be distinguisted into trro motions C. B and BR,
Wrhereot C B is a parallet to the retracting plane, and
BR perpendicular to it: C. B Mall reprelent the motion
OF the incident rar, and BR the motion generated by
the retraction, a5 Opticians have ot late explained.
Nou il any body or thins in morins throueh any
pace oF a siving breadth terminated on both sides by
tiro parallet plains, be urged formard in all parts ot
that space by forces tendins directly Formards torrards
the last plain, and betore its incidence on the Ars
plane, had no motion Forards it, or but an infinicly
litele one; and it the Forces in aII parts ofthat space,
betireen the planes be at equal distances trom the planes
equal to one another, but at several dictances bebisger
Or lels in any siven proxortion, the motion generated
Oy the forces in therhole passage oE the body or chins
chrous