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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 128, page id 1677894601:0304
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the Aneles AC.D, BC F equal to one anotter, and
terminatins allthe Lisht whith FaIlS upon the Paper From
the pointrrhere the edoes of the Rniresincet; eis, FKL,
and sIr, three lyperbolical lines representinq the ter-
minus oFthe Pador ot one ot the Rnires, the dark linc
betreen the tirst and second tringes oFthat Madour, and
the dark line betreen the second and third Fringes ot
the lame Mador; Zip, Vkg and 2lr, thrce other IIY.
perbolical lines reprelentinq the terminus of the Padon
OF thc other Knite, the dark line betveen the Ars and
second Fringes ot that Cador, and the dark line be-
treen the second and third Fringes ot the lame Padon.
And conceire that these three AIyperbolas are like and
equal to the Forimer threc, and crossthem in the points
ig k and l, and that the Phadtors oFthe Rniresare termi-
nated and distinguistred From the Airst luminous fringes
by the lines cis and xip, until the inectins and crol-
lins ofthe fringes, and then those lines crols thefringes
in theform oF dark lines, terminatins the Airst luminous
Frinses within side, and distinguistuns them from ano-
ther Lisht wrhich begins to appear at i, and illuminates
allthe triangular space ipD Ls comprehended by thelc
dark lines, and the risht line DH. OF thele Hy.
Perbolas one ACmptoteis the line DF, and their other
AEymptotes are paralel to the lines C. A and C. B. T et
er reprelent a line dramn ans erhere upon the l’aper
Parallel tothe ACymptote DF, and let this line crols
therisht lines AC. in m and BC. in n, and the sIX dark
lrperbolical lines in P, G Y; S, t V; and by meaturins
the distances pc, qt, PV, and thence collectinq the
the lenoctis oF the ordinates nP, HG, HF OF MS, ME,
mr and doins chis at sereral distances ot the line PV,
FrOm