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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 21

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  1. che Prims makie any: For in a Vessel made of polistrec
  2. Plates oF Class cemented cogether in the Chape ot a Prisir
  3. and Alled wich Water, chere i5 che like SuCCeIS OFFMC FX-
  4. periment according co che quanciey ot che Retraction. IE
  5. is furcher co be obserred, chat che Rays vene on in riohe
  6. Lines trom the Prism eo che Image, and cheretore ac cheir
  7. very going out ot the Prilm had all chac Inclination eo
  8. one anocher trom irhich che lenoch ot the Image pro-
  9. ceeded, chat is the Inclination ot more than tro DCorces
  10. and an haIt. And vec according to the Lars oF Opticks
  11. vulsarty receired, they could noc possibly be lo muchi in-
  12. clined to one anocher. For let FO reprelent cheWindon- Fir. 13
  13. PhuE, F che hole made cherein chrouxh irtrich a beam of the
  14. Suns Lighe as transmitted inco che darkned Chamber, and
  15. ABC a Friangular Imaginary Plane whereby the Prism is
  16. seioned to bc cur erantrerllr chrouph the midale ot che
  17. Lighe. Or il rou please, let AB C represene che Prism ic
  18. selF, looling directly cormards che Spectators Eye wich ies
  19. nearer end: And lec X Y b0 the Sun, MI N thePaper upon
  20. irtrich ehe solar Image or Spectrum is cast, and P Y thc
  21. Image ic selF whose sides corrards V and W are Rectili-
  22. near and Parallel, and ends corrards P and T Semicir.
  23. cular. YKTIP and ZL F T are thetro Rays, the ErA
  24. ot which comes from che lorver part ot the Sun co. che
  25. higher part of che Image, and is retracted in the Prilm ae
  26. K and II, and che latrer comes from the higher part ol
  27. the sun eo che lorver part ot che Image, and is retracted
  28. aEL and J. Since the Retractions on boch sides the Prilm
  29. are cqual co one another, thac is che Retraction at R equal
  30. co the Retraction at T, and che Retraction at L equal EO
  31. che Retraction ac FI, (0 chac che Retractions ol the inci-
  32. dene RaYS ac K and L taken together arc equal to che
  33. Retractions oF che emergent RayS ac II and J caken toge-
  34. chex.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 21. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0031?run=74