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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 126, page id 1677894601:0302
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treen the Kuires at the concourle oE their edoes. And.
theretore the distance ot the edoes OF the Rnives at the
incetins, ot these dark lines rras the ibOth part oF an
Tnch. FOr as Four Inches to the eighth part oF an Inch,
(0 is aur lensth of the edges ot the Rnires inealured
From the point ot their concourse tothe distance ot the
edoes of the Rnires at the end ot that lenoth, and (0 is
thC AFEh parE eF an Inch to the TBOth paFL. S0 thenthe
dark lines abore mentioned meet in the midale ot the
Lisht erhich passes becreen the Knires wrhere they are
distant the 1both part ot an Tuch, and the one halE oF
that Lioht passes by the edse oF one Rnite at a distance
noc creater than the 320th part ot an Iuch, and fallins
upon the Paper makes the tringes ot the Mhadom of that
Rnise, aud the otter halt passes by the edse ot the
Other Knife, at a distance not sreater than the 320th
Dart of an luch, and Falling upon the Paper makres the
Fringes oF the Bado ot the other Inite. But if the
Paper De held at a distance From the Knires greater than
the third part ot an Inch, the dark lines abore men-
tioned meet at a preater distance than the AEth pAFE OF
an Inch From the end of the Lighe erhrich passed be-
trreen theKnires at the concourse ot their edoes; and
theretore the Light irhrich Falls upon the P’aper irhere
thole dark lines meet pasles betreen the Knires
irtiere their edges are distant abore the 1b0th part ot
au IMCM.
FOr at another time wrhen the trro Knires vvere di-
Aant eioht Feet and tire Tuches From Fhe litele Eole in
the Windo, made with a Cinall. P’in as abore the l iont
arhrich Fell uxon the Paper irhere the atoresaid dark
lines met. Passed betreen the Kuires, irhere the di-
Cance