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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 11

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  1. stalline humour exow Haccer chan betore, the Lihe ill noc bc
  2. retracced enorph, and For ranc of a sufficient Retraction
  3. ill noc converge to the bocrom ot che Ere bur colome
  4. place berond ic, and by consequence paint in the boccom
  5. OfcheEre a contuled Picture, and accordinq to the indistinct-
  6. nels oF ehis Picture che Object mill appear contused. This
  7. isthe reason of che decar of sighe in old Men, and Phews
  8. Why cheir sighe is mended by Spectacles. Forthole Con-
  9. rex. glasses supply che detect oF plumpnels in che Frc, and
  10. by encrealine che Retraction make theRays conrerse looner
  11. (0 asto conrene distinctly ac che bocrom ofche Fre if the
  12. Clals hare a due degree ot conrexier. And the contrarr
  13. happens in Chorc-Siehred Nen Whose Pres are t00 plump.
  14. For che Retraction beins non t00 great, che Rays conrerge
  15. and conrene in che Fyes betore cher come ac thebortom;
  16. and cheretore chePicture made in the borcom and che Vision
  17. caused chereby will noc be distinct, untels che Object be
  18. broughe lo near che Fre as thar cheplace irhere the con-
  19. vergins Rays conrenc may be remoredtotheborom, or
  20. thac ehe plumpness ot che Fve be taken of and che Retra-
  21. ctions diminithed by a Concare-glals of a due degrec ot
  22. Concarier, or la sly chat by AgC the Eye gron Aaccer eill ic
  23. come co a due Figure: For Chore-(ighred Nen lec remore
  24. Objects best in Old AgC, and cheretore chey are accounced
  25. cohare che mostlacting LyCs.
  26. A X. VIII.
  27. An Object seen by Reflexion or Refraction, appears in that place
  28. from ihence the Rays after their last Reflexion or Refraction di-
  29. verge in fallins on the Spectators Fye.
  30. IF che Object A be seen by Rehexion oF a L 0okins- F18. 9.
  31. alS m n, iC Pall appear, noc in ies proper place A, buc
  32. Behinc

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 11. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0021?run=74