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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 127, page id 1677894601:0303
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Rance Betireen their edges iras as in the follorvine
Pable, irtren the distance oEthe Paper tromthe Knires
WaS alus IBLIOWS.
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And hence Tgather that the Light erhich makes the
Fringes upon the Paper is not the lame Lisht ac aIl di-
Sances of the Paper From theRnires, but irhenthe la-
per is held near the Rnires, the tringes are made by
Light wrhich passes by the edges ot the Knires at a lels
distance, and is more bent than wrhen the P’aper is held
at a greater distance from the Rnires.
OB5. Z.
When the Fringes ot the Madors of the Knires fell
Derpendicularly upon a Paper at a great distance from
the Rnires, ther ivere in the form of Iyperbolas, and
their dimentions vere as Follorrs. L et C. A, C B repre
sent lines dramn upon the Paper parallel to the edges ot
the Rnires, and betrreen wrhich aIl the Light vould
Fall, is it passed betreen the edges oF the knires rith
out intlexion; DF. a righe line drann chroush C. makino
THC