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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 23

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  1. hole, and curmins che Prism co and Fro about its AXiS EO
  2. makce chelmage of the hole alcend and descend, irhen be-
  3. circen its truo contrarr Morions ic secmed Cationary, l
  4. Rope the Prim chac che Retractions on Boch sides ot che
  5. retractins Anele mighe be equal eo cach ocher as in che
  6. Former Experimene. In this Sicuation of che Prism riew-
  7. ins chrouoh ic che Caid hole, I observed the lenoth ot ies
  8. retracted Image to be manr cimes orcater chan ies breadeh,
  9. and chac the most retracted pare chereot appeared violet,
  10. the least retracted red, the midale pares ble orcen and
  11. vellon in order. The Came ching happened when I rc-
  12. mored che Prilm out ot the suns Lighe, and looled
  13. chrough ic upon che hole Chining by che Lighe of che
  14. Clonds berond ic. And rec il che Retraction vere donc
  15. regularlr accordins to one certain Proportion of the Sines
  16. ot Incidence and Retraction as is vulsarly supposed, chc
  17. retracted Image oughe eo hare appeared round.
  18. S0 chen, by chese tro Experimenes ic appears thac in
  19. equal Incidences chere is a considerable inequalier of RC-
  20. Fractions: Buc Whence chis inequaliey arises, Wrhecher ic be
  21. that Fome oF che incidene RayS are retracted more and
  22. others lels, constanely or by chance, or thac one and che
  23. Tame Ray is by Retraction disturbed, Pharcered, dilaced,
  24. and as ic vere (plic and spread inco many dirergine Rays,
  25. 25 Grimaldo supposes, does noc rec appear by chele Lxperi-
  26. menes, buc rill appear br chole chac Follon.
  27. Exper. 5. Considerins cheretore, chac if in che chird PX-
  28. perimene che lmaxe oF che Sun Phomld be dravn oue inco
  29. an oblons torm, cither by a Dilatation oF erery RaY, Or
  30. by any ocher calual inequalier of che Retractions, the lame
  31. oblone Imase ould by 2 second Retraction made Side-
  32. ays Be deamn ouc as much in breadch by che likee Dila-
  33. cation of che Rays or ocher casual inequalier ot che Re-
  34. tractions

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 23. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0033?run=74