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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 114, page id 1677894601:0290
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Bd. l.
I made in a piece of L ead a (maH Hole with a Pin,
arhole bresdth iras the +2th part oE an Inch. FOF 21
oE those Pins laid cosether took up the breadtm oF halt
an Tuch. Through this Hole I let into iny darkened
Chamber a beam ot the Suns. Lisht, and Found that the
Mados offTairs, Phred, Pins, Stras, and Cuch like Plen-
der Tubstances placed inthisbeam ofLisht, ere consider-
ably broader than ther ouolttobe, il the rarsot Liohe
passed on by thele Bodies in right Lines. And particu-
larls a Tlair ot a Mans Hlead, Wrhole breadth iras but
the28oth part ot an Inch, beins held in this Liolit, ae
the distance oF about telre Feet Erom theHtole, did
cast a Phadorr irtrich at the distance oF Four Tuches Fiom
the Flair was the sixtieth part ot an Tuch brond, thatis,
abore tour times bronder than theHlair, and at the di-
Cance oFtrro Feet From the Flair ras about the eiglt
and trventieth part ot an Inch brond, thatis, tentimes
broader than ihe Hair, and at the distance OFten FCCE
rasthe ciohth part of an lnch broad, that is 35 times
broader.
Nor is it material whether the llair be incompassed
rith Air, or rith any ottier pellucid substance. For I
retted a polistred plate ot Glals, and laid the Fair in
the Water upon the Cilals, and then lazins another po-
listred plate oF Cilals upon it, (0 that the Water mioht
AIl ux the space betreen the Cilases, I held them in
the atorelaid beam oF LishE, (0 that the LighemighE
Pass throush them perpendiculartr, and the adom
oFthe Llair ras at the lame distances as big as betore.
ThC