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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 6

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  1. In like manner, if there bc 2 Prism oF Glals (hat is a
  2. Class bounded rich evo Pqual and Parallel Triangular
  3. ends, and chrec plane and vell polithed Sides, which meet
  4. in chrec Parallel Lines runnins trom che chrec Anoles ot
  5. one end co the chree Angles ot che ocher end) and it che
  6. Retraction oF che Lighe in pallins crols chis Prilm be desi-
  7. red: TeE ACB represent a Plane curtinq chis Prilm eran
  8. rersly co ies chree Parallel lines or edges there uhere the
  9. Liphic passech chrough ic, and lec dF. bc che Ray inci-
  10. dene upon che first side oF the Prilm A C Where the LixhE
  11. gocs inco che Olals; And by purtins che Proportion ot
  12. che sine ot Incidence eo che sinc ot Retraction a5 17 +0
  13. 12 End F F che first retracted Ray. Then calcinq chis Ray
  14. For che Incident Ray upon the sccond side oF che Cla(S B C
  15. irhere che Liohe goes ouE, find che next retracted RaY FC
  16. br purtins che Proportion ot che sine ot Incidence to che
  17. Sine oF Retraction a5 11 +0 17. For it che sinc ot Inci-
  18. denCe OHE OF Rir into Glass bC co ehe sine ot Retraction
  19. 25 17 20 1I, che Sine oF Incidence out ot Gla(s intO Rir
  20. must on the contrary be co che sine of Retraction a5 11
  21. eo 17, by che chird Ariom.
  22. Much after che Pame manner, iF A C B D reprelent a
  23. Class spherically Conrex on boch sides Culually called a
  24. Tens, such as is a Burming-glals, or Spectacle-slals, Or an
  25. Object. olals ot a Telelcope) and ic be required to know
  26. hoir Lighe Falling uxon ic trom aur lucid poine 2 Phal
  27. be retracted, lec M reprelent a Ray Fallins uxon any
  28. point MI oF ies first spherical Surtace ACB, and by crectino
  29. a Perpendicular to the Clals at che poine MI, find ehe Airst
  30. retracred Ray M N by che Proportion oL che Sines 17
  31. EOII. Let chac Ray in goins out ot che Clals be inci-
  32. dene uxon N, and chen find che second retracted R ay N g
  33. by che Proportion oF che Sines 1I +0 17. And atter che
  34. Tame
  35. Fig. 2.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 6. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0016?run=74