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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 9

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  1. C9
  2. and chereby a Lens be Formed, which Pall make che Rays
  3. Ao comards or trom irhac place rou please.
  4. 50 chen che meaninq of chis Ariom is, thac il RayS
  5. Fall uxon any Plane or Spherical Surtace or Lens, and
  6. betore cheir Incidence Ron From or tomards any Point,
  7. cher Chall atrer ReRlexion or Retraction RoW trom Or tO-
  8. ards che Point q Found by che Foregoins Rules. And it
  9. ehe incidene Rays Aor From or comards sereral poines ,
  10. the reslected or retracred Rays PBaII ROm From or tormards
  11. Co many orner Poines g Found by che lame Rules. Whe
  12. cher che refecced and refracted Rays Ron From or torrards
  13. che Poine q is casily lnonn by che situarion oF that Point.
  14. For it chac Poine be on che lame side oF the reAectin Or
  15. retractinq surtace or Lens ich che Point , and che in-
  16. cidenc Rars Aou From che Point , the reflected Aon to-
  17. wards che Poinc q and ehe retracred trom ic; and it che
  18. incident Rays Aor corards , che reftected Aon From qu
  19. and che retracced corrards ic. And the contrary happens
  20. wrhen q is on che ocher (ide ot that Surtace.
  21. A X. VII.
  22. Wherever che Rays wbich come from all che Doints of any Ob-
  23. ject meet azain in so many Points afcer they have been made to
  24. converze by Restexion or Refraction, there they nill mate a Dic-
  25. ture of che Objeet upon any inbite Dody on Which they fall.
  26. S0 it PR reprelent any Object withoue DOOrs, and AB Fis. 3.
  27. be a Lens placed ac a hole in che Wincon- uE oF a dark
  28. Chamber, Whereby che Rays that come trom any Point
  29. Ot chac Objece are made co converse and mecc ag2in in
  30. the Point q; and if a Sheet ot wrtrice Paper be held ac q
  31. For the Lighe chere eo FaII upon ic: the Picture OF FhAE
  32. Object PR Will appear upon che Paper in ies proper Strape
  33. 27C

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 9. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0019?run=74