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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 19

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  1. the most conrenient, ie is eo be understood thac all che Prisms
  2. are placed in che follorinu Experimenes, untels where lome
  3. ocher polture is described. The Prilm cheretore beins pla-
  4. ced in chis posture, I lec the retracted Liphe Fail perpendi-
  5. cularty uxon a Steet oF irhice Paper ac the opposItE W aIL
  6. ot the Chamber, and obserred che Figure and Dimensions
  7. OF the Solar Imase Formed on the Paper by chac Lipht.
  8. Phis Image wras Oblono and noc Oral, bue cerminared
  9. rich vo Rectilincar and Parallel Sides, and cvo Sermi-
  10. circular Ends. On ies Sides ic was bounded precer distinctr,
  11. buc on ics Fnds very contuleds and indistincly, ehe Lighe
  12. chere decaxins and vanistns by deorees. The breadch ot
  13. this Imase anlivered co che Suns Diameter, and iras about
  14. erro tnches and the cioheh pare oF an tnch, including che
  15. Penumbra. For thelmage iras ciphreen Fcet and an halt
  16. distane from che Prism, and ac chis distance chac breadch it
  17. diministred by che Diameter oF che hole in che W indo-(BUE,
  18. chac is by a quarcer oF an Inch, subcended an Angle ac che
  19. Prilm oF about halt a Deorec, ertrich is che SuInS apPareHE
  20. Diamecer. Buc che lensch ofthe Image was abouc ren Inches
  21. and a quarrer, and che lenoch of che Rectilincar Sides about
  22. eiohe Inches; And che retractine Anele ot che Prilm wrhere-
  23. by (0 great a lenoch vas made, ias 64 deor. Wich a lels
  24. Angle che lenech ot the Image was lels, che breacth re
  25. mainins che Came. IF che Prilm as turned about its AZIS
  26. thac War irhich made che Rays emerse more obliquolY Out
  27. et ehe second retractinq Surtace ot the Prilm, che tinase loon
  28. became an Inch or ermo longer, or more; and il che Prilim
  29. as turned about the concrarr may, (0 as eo make che Ra75
  30. fall more obliquely on the first retracting Surtace, chelmage
  31. Coon became an Tuch or ero Phorrer. And cheretore in cry
  32. ino chis Experimene I as as curious as I could be in pla-
  33. cing che Prilm by che aborementioned Rule exactly in
  34. TuC

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 19. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0029?run=74