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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 14

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  1. C
  2. upon che Paper made an Angle wich the Paper, cqual eo
  3. chac Anole ertrich as made wich che lame Paper by che
  4. Liohe resected trom it to the Erc. Berond che Prism was
  5. che W aII oF che Chamber under che Window corered over
  6. vich black Cloch, and che Cloch was involved in Ddark-
  7. nels thac no Lighe miohe be reRected From chence, wtrich
  8. in passins by che edges ot che Paper ro che Erc, mighe
  9. minole ic selF wich che Lighe of che Paper and obscure che
  10. Phaenomenon chereot. These chinos beino thus ordered,
  11. Y Found chac it che retractine Anole ofche Prilm be curned
  12. upmards, (0 thac chie Paper may seem co be litced upmards
  13. by che Retraction, ies ble halt wrill be lifced hixher by
  14. che Retraction chan ies red halt. Bur it che retractin
  15. Anole ot the Prism be curned domnmard, (o thac the Pa-
  16. per may seem co be carried lorver by che Retraction, its
  17. blem halt rill be carried Pomething lover thereby chan
  18. its red halF. Wheretore in boch cales the Liphe whicta
  19. comes From che ble hale ot che Paxer chrouoh the Prism
  20. cothe Ere, docs in like Circumstances lufter a greater Re-
  21. Fraction chan ehe Liphe inhich comes trom che red halt,
  22. and br consequence is more retransible.
  23. plustration. In che Elerench Figure, M N reprelents che
  24. Windo, and D F che Paper terminaced ich parallet sides
  25. D) andHIF, and by checransrerse Line FO distinguithed
  26. into erro halts, che one DC ot an incenselr bler Colour
  27. ehe Other F FOF an incenselr red. AAd BA C Cab repre-
  28. senes ehe Prilm whose retracting Planes ABB a and A C CA
  29. meet in che edge ot che retractins Anele A a. This edoc
  30. Aa beins uprard, is parallel boch to che Horiron and eo
  31. che parallel edges oF che Paper D) and HL. And dere-
  32. prelenes che lmage oF che Paper seen by Retraction up-
  33. mards in such manner chac che blem halt DC is carried
  34. trigher co de chanche red half F P. is to fe, and cheretore
  35. Custers
  36. F1g. 11

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 14. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0024?run=74