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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 18

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  1. P ROP. II. THCOT. TI.
  2. The Lighe of the Sun consists of Pays differently Refrancible,
  3. The PrOOF by ExpCTImeNES.
  4. Exper. 3. N a very dark Chamber ac a round hole aboue
  5. B onc chird pare ot an Tnch broad made in che
  6. SAnE oF a Nindom I placed a Class Prism, whereby che
  7. beam ofthe suns Lighe irhich came in ac chac hole miohe
  8. be retracted upvards corard che oppolice Wall oF che
  9. Chamber, and there form a coloured Image ot the
  10. Sum. Thc Axis oF che Prilm (thac is che Line passino
  11. chrouoh the middle ot che Prilm trom one end ot ic tO
  12. che ocher end Parallel to the edoc of che Retracting AnelC)
  13. vas in chis and che Collowins Experimenes perpendicular
  14. to the incidene Rars. AbouE ehis Axis I curned che PrisM
  15. Plomly, and Par che refracted Liohe on the WaII Oc cO-
  16. loured Image ot the sun Arst to descend and then eo a(
  17. cend. Betreen che Descent and AIcent wrhen che Image
  18. seemed Scationarr, IRopE che Prilm, and fixc ic in chat
  19. Polture, chac ic Thould Be mored no more. For in thac
  20. posture the Retractions of che Liohe ac the erro sides ot
  21. che Retractins Angle, chac is ac che entrance of che Rays
  22. into che Prism and ac cheir goins out oF it, vere equal eo
  23. one anocher. S0 allo in ocher Lixperimenes as otcen a5 L
  24. rould hare che Retractions on Boch sides ehe Prismm co be
  25. equal to one anocher, Inored the place utere the Imase
  26. ot the sun formed by che retracted Lighe Aood Aill bC-
  27. LWreen IES cro contrarY Mocions, in the common Perioc
  28. OF its proorels and corels; and nhen che Imaxe fell upon
  29. thac place, Imade tast the Prilm. And in chis pocture, as
  30. et

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 18. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0028?run=74