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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 124, page id 1677894601:0300
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CT24
Fiohe ranisted. This inlargement oF che Fringes WaS
(0 great that the rays irhich 5o to the innermost Frinse
Seemed to De bent abore trventy times more irten this
Frinse ras reads toranittu, than wrtien onc ot the Knires
ras takenarrar.
And Fromthis and the Former Oblerration compared,
Tsather, that the Fight oF thetirst trinse passed by the
edoe ofthe Rnite at a distance greater than the eioht.
hundredth part oF an luch, and the Lishe of the second
Fringe Passed by the edee of the Rnite at a greater di-
Cance than the Lioht ot the Arest tringe did, and that
ofthe third at a greater distance than that ot the se-
cond, and that oF the sreams of Light described in
the titth and sixth Observations passed by the edges
oF the Rnires at lels distances than that ot any oF thC
Trinses.
OB5. VIII
lcaused the edges ot trro Knives to be pround truty
Areishe, and prickins their points into a board (0 that
their edoes misht look torrards one another, and meet-
ino near their points contain a rectilinear Anole, I Fas.
ned their handles tosether rith Pitch to make this
Ansle invariable. Ihe distance oF the edges of the
Knires From one another at the distance DE tour Inches
From the angular point, erhere the edges of the Knires
met, as theeigheh part ot an luch, and theretore the
Ansle contained by the edges ras about 1 degr. 54.
Lhe Knires thus Aixed together I placed in a beam of
thesuns Light, let into my darkened Chamber throuotr
a FIole the 42th part oF an lnch wide, at the distance
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