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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 22

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  1. cher: ic Follons by addins equal chines eo equal chines.
  2. chac the Retractions ac R and HI caken together, are equal
  3. co che Retractions at J and L caken togecher, and there
  4. Fore che ero Rays beins equally retracted have che lame
  5. Inclination eo one anocher alcer Retraction wrhich cher had
  6. betore, chac is che Inclination oF halF a Dcoree ansiverine
  7. eO EHe SUMS DIAMCCCF. FOr (0 great vas the Inclinacion
  8. oF che Rars co one anocher betore Retraction. S0 then,
  9. the lensch ot chelmage P P rould br che Rules oF Vul-
  10. sar Opticks subrend an Angle oF halE 2 Dcorce ac the
  11. Prism, and by consequence be equal to che breadch vn:
  12. and cheretore che Image rontd be round. Thus ic would
  13. bC WerC thC EVO RayS ZL TT and YK FIP and aIl che
  14. rest irtrich Form che Image P n TV, alike Retranoible.
  15. And cheretore secinu by Experience ic is Found chac che
  16. Image is noc round bue aboue tire cimes longer chan
  17. broad, che Rars irhich goins eo che upper end P ot che
  18. Image sufter che orearest Retraction, mustbe more Retran-
  19. eible chan thole irhich g0 co che lorver end Y, untels che
  20. inequalier ot Retraction be casurl.
  21. This Image or Spectrum P Piras coloured, being red
  22. dc ies least retracted end T, and violet ac ies most retracted
  23. end P, and vellon orcen and bler in che incermediate
  24. Spaces. Which aorees rich che first Propolition, thac Liohes
  25. irtrich difter in Colour do also differ in Retrangibilier.
  26. Phe lengch ot che Image in che Foregoins Experients L
  27. mealured Crom che Faincest and ourmost red ac one end, e0
  28. che faincest and ouemost ble ac the other end.
  29. Exper. 4. In che suns beam intich ras propagared in-
  30. coche Room chrouph che hole in che Windo- PhUE, aE
  31. che distance ot some Fece From the hole, Iheld che Prilm
  32. in such a polture chac ies Aris miche be perpendicular eo
  33. chac beam. Then I looted chroush che Prilm upon che
  34. hole.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 22. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0032?run=74