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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 25

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  1. che Imase P T ouohe to be again dilated and spread Side-
  2. rays by che cransverse Retraction oF the lecond Prilm, (9
  3. 25 co compole a toursquare Imasc, such as is reprelented
  4. aC I. For che berrer understandinq of wrhich, lec the Image
  5. PT be distinonilhed into AVC Cqual PATES POR, RORL,
  6. LRSMI, NISVN, NVT. And by che lame irregularitr
  7. chat che Orbicular Lighe Y is by che Retraction ot che Arst
  8. Prilm dilared and drann out inco a lone Image P P, chc
  9. che Lighe P OK which cakes up a space ot the lame lenoth
  10. and breadch rich che Lighe Y oughe to be by che Retra-
  11. ction et che second Prism dilaced and dranon oue into che
  12. lone Image r g kP, and che LighEK O R L into the lonp
  13. Image kgrI, and the LighES L RR SMI, NISV N, NV T
  14. into (o manr ocher lons Images lr5 m, msVn, nV +I; and
  15. all chese lons Images vould compose che Fourlquare Imasc
  16. I. Thus ic oughe to be ivere crery Ray dilaced By RC-
  17. traction, and spread into a criangular Superticies of RaYS
  18. direroins from che Point of Retraction. For che lecond
  19. Retraction vould spread che Rays one ay as much as the
  20. trst dorh anocher, and (0 dilace che Image in breadth 25
  21. much a5 che tirst doch in lenech. And che Came chins
  22. oughe co happen, vere lome Rays calually retracted more
  23. chan ochers. Buc the Fvene is ocherwise. TheImage P I
  24. was noc made bronder by the Retraction ot che second
  25. Prilm, buc ontr became oblique, 25 tis reprelenced ac pt,
  26. itS uxper end P beins by che Retraction eranllared 10 2
  27. oreater distance chan ies lover end T. S0 chen che Liohe
  28. which ene cormards che upper end P oF che ImasC, Wa5
  29. (aE equal Incidences) more retracted in che second Prilm
  30. than che Lighe wrhich cended corrards che lover end I.
  31. chac is che ble and rioler, chan the red and rellor; and
  32. cheretore mas more Retrangible. Phe Came Liphe was by
  33. the Retraction oF che first Prim cranllated Furcher trom the
  34. Place

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 25. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0035?run=74