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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
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narromest wrhien my Fre Was furthest fromthe direct
Lient, and theretore secmed to pals berween the Light
ot that fringe and the edge of the Rnite, and that
irhich passed nearest the edge to be most bent, though
not all oF it.
OBS. VI.
Y placed another Rnise by ehis (0 that Their cdges
mishit be paraIlel and lo0k torrards one another, and
thatthe beam oF Lignt might Fall upon boch the Rnives.
and some part oF it palo betrreen their edges. And
irten the distance oF their edoes as aboutthe 4OOth
DaEt OF an Tuch the Aream parted in the midale, and
Iett a ThadO DCTWCCM FHE ENO PATES. This Bacon
as (0 black and dark thdt alt the Lioht which parsed
betreen the Rnires scemed to be bent, and turned alide
tothe one hand or tothe other. And as the Knires AiI
approached one another the hado orew broader, and
the Areams Borter at their inmard ends wrhich vere
next the Cador, uneil upon the contact of the Knives
the irhole Lighe vanistied learins its place to the
Mracto.
And hence I gather thac the Lisht wrhich is least
bent, and soes to the imrard ends ot the Areams, pas-
ses bY the cdoes oF the Rnires at the greatest distance,
and this distance wrhen the Phador begins tO appCaF DC.
treen the Rreams is about the eight- hundredth DaFE OF
an Tnch. And the Light wrhich passes by che edees oF
the Rnires at distances AiII lelS and lels is more and
more bent, and soesto those parts OF the streams Wrhich
are further and turther trom the direct Lighe, because
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