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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 2

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  1. ching alone, whichche rest of che Lighe doch noc or suF
  2. ers nOL, I caIl a Ray oE Liotc.
  3. DE FIVI. II.
  4. Refrangibility of. the Rays of Zight, is their Disposition to be
  5. refracted or turned out of their Way in passinz out of one trans-
  6. parent Body or Medium into another. And a greater or less Re-
  7. frangibility of Rays, is their Disposition to be turned more or less
  8. out of their Way in lihe Incidences on the same Medium. Mache-
  9. maticians ulually consider che Rars ot Lighe eo be Lines
  10. reachinu trom che luminons Body ro the body illumina-
  11. ced, and che refraction ot chose Rays eo bc che bendino
  12. or breakcine of chose Lines in cheir passing ont ol one Me-
  13. dium inco anocher. And chus may Rays and Retractions
  14. be considered, il Lighe be propagated in an instanc. BuE
  15. by an Aroument cakcen trom che AEquations of che times
  16. ot che Felipses oF FupiterS Satellites it Scems thac Liphe is
  17. propasated in time, spending in ies pallase trom che sun
  18. rous about seven pinures ot time: And cheretore I have
  19. cholen to detine Rars and Retractions in such general
  20. cerms as may agree to Lishe in boch cales.
  21. DE FFN. HI.
  22. Restexibility of Rays, is their Disposition to be turned back into
  23. the same Medium from any other Nedium upon whose Surface they
  24. fall. And Pays are more or les reflexible, which are returned
  25. back more or less easity. A5 it LiphE palS ouE OF GlaIS inEO
  26. Air, and by being inclined more and more to the com-
  27. mon Surtace et che ClaIs and Rir, begins ax lenoch co be
  28. cocally reflected by that Surtace; thole TOrts oF Rays Which
  29. at like Incidences are reflected most copiousty, or by in-
  30. clining che Rays begin Coonest ro be torally reflected, are
  31. most refexible.
  32. F

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 2. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0012?run=74