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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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I
Wrhen the Rnires approach one another cHII they touch,
those parts oF the streams ranistr last Wrhich are Furthest
tromthe direct Light.
OBS. VTI.
In che Atch Obserration the Fringes did not appear,
out by reaon of the breadth of the Hole inthe Win-
dour became (o broad as to run into one another, and
or jornins make one continued Light in the beginnine
OF the ArCAMIS. But in the EXth, a5 the Rnires ap-
Proached one another, a little betore the Chadon ap.
Veared betreen the trro Areams, thetringes began to
appear on the inner ends ot the Areams on either lide
oF the direct Liohe, threc on one side made by theedse
oF one Rnite, and three on the other side made by the
edse ot the other Knite. Lher ere distinctest irhen
the Rnires ivere placed at the greatest distance from the
LTole inthe Windou, and AiIl became more distinct by
makins the Hole lels, insomuch that P could Pometimes
sec a faint lineament ot a Fourth frinse berond thethree
abore mentioned. And as the Rnires continually ap.
proached one another, the tringes srerr distincter and
larger until ther vanistred. The outmost tringe va-
nithred trst, and the midalemole next, and the inner
most lact. And alter they vere all vanittred, and the
linc oF Lieht irtrich as in the midale betireen them
rassromn vers brond, entarsins it selt on both sides
intothe Areams oF Light described in the Ritth ObseF
vation, the aborementioned ado Besan to appear
in the midele ot this line, and diride it alons themidale
into trro lines ot Lighe, and increaled until the wrhole
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