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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 125, page id 1677894601:0301
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125
oF ten or stteen Feet trom the HTole, and let che Listit
irhich passed betreen cheir edees Fall very obliquely
uxon a (nooth white Ruler at the distance ot halF au
Inch, or an Inch From the Rnires, and there law the
tringes made by the tiro edses of the Rnires run alone
the edoes of the Mados oF the Knires in lines parallel
to thole edges without gromins sensibly bronder, till
chey met in Ansles equaltothe Ansle contained by the
edges ofthe UEnires, and irhere ther met and jorned
ther ended wichout crossins one another. Buc it the
Ruler was held at a much sreater distance from the
Paper, thetringes became Lomethins bronder and broader
as ther approached one another, and alter ther net
thes eroned one another, and then became much broader
than betore.
Whence I sather that the distances ac irtrich tho
Tringes pass by the Rnires are not increaled nor altered
by the approuch ofthe Rnires, but the Angles in irtricti
the raysare there bent are much increaled by that ap
proach; and that the Knite erhich is nearest any cay
determines irhich was the ras MaIl De bent, and the
Other Rnite increales the bent.
adi LLL
When the rays fell very obliquels upon the RuIeT aC
thedittance of the third part of an lnch trom the Knires;
the dark line betureen the fust and second Fringe oF thC
Thadoir oF one Unite, and the dark line betireen the
tirst and second tringe ot the Madow of the other Rnite
met rith onc another, at the distance oE the Atth part
OE an Inch trom the end oE the Lishe wrhich passed be-
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