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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 24

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  2. Fractions Sidemays, I eried whac vould be che Ffects ot
  3. Such a second Retraction. For chis end Pordered all chings
  4. as in che chird Fxperimene, and chen placed a second Prilm
  5. immediatel atcer che tirst in a cross Posirion eo ic, thac ic
  6. mighe again retract che beam of the suns Liphe which
  7. came eo ic chrough che tirst Prilm. In che first Prilm ehis
  8. bcam as retracted uprards, and in che second Sidevars.
  9. And I Found chac by che Retraction oF the second Prilm
  10. chebreadch ot che Image mas noc increaled, buc ies supe-
  11. rior pare which in che trst Prilm Cuffered che greater Re-
  12. traction and appeared riolet and blen, did again in che
  13. second Prilm Cutter a greacer Retraction chan ies inferior
  14. parc, wrhich appeared red and vellon, and chis wichoue
  15. any Dilacion ot che lmage in breadch.
  16. Illustration. L et S represent che Sun, F the hole in the
  17. Windor, ABC che first Prilm, DHI che second Prism, Y
  18. the round Image ot che sun made by a direct beam ot
  19. Liohe when che Prisus are catcen awar, P Y che oblone
  20. Image oF che sun made by chac beam palsins chrouoh che
  21. First Prism alone irhen the sccond Prilm is takcen avar, and
  22. pe che lmage made by che crols Retractions oF boch
  23. Prilms cogecher. Now it che Rays irtrich cend cowards
  24. the sereral Poines oF che round Image Y ivere dilared and
  25. spread by che Retraction oF che frst Prilm, (0 chac they
  26. Thould noc any longer 80 in single Lines ro lingle Points,
  27. but chat everr Ray beins splic, Chatrered, and changed
  28. From a Linear Ray co a Superticies of Rays diveroino
  29. From che Poinc of Retraction, and lying in che Plane ot
  30. che Angles of Incidence and Retraction, cher Chould
  31. 90 in chole Planes to (0 mans Lines reachins almost
  32. trom one end ot che Image PP eo che other, and it
  33. thac Image Phould thence become oblons: thole Rays
  34. and chei lereral pares cendins conards the sereral Points ot
  35. the
  36. 14

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 24. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0034?run=74