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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 26

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  1. place Y eo which ic cended betore Retraction; and there-
  2. Fore suffered a5 well in che Airst Prilm as in che second à
  3. oreater Retraction chan the rest of che Lighe, and by con-
  4. lequence was more Retransible chan che rest, even betore
  5. its incidence on the Arst Prilm.
  6. Sometimes I placed a chird Prilm atcer the lecond, and
  7. Cometimes also a Fourth atcer che chird, by ait irhich che
  8. Imagc miohe bc otren retracted sidermars: buc che Rays
  9. erhich ivere more retracted chan the rest in che Airst Prilm
  10. ivere alsomore retracted in aIl the rest, and chac without
  11. any Dilararion of the lmage sidemars: and cheretore thole
  12. Rars For cheir constaner ot a greater Retraction are de-
  13. serredy repured more Retrangible.
  14. ie. 15. Buc chac che meanins of chis Experimene may more
  15. cleartr appear, ic is to be considered chac che Rays wtrick
  16. are cquallr Retransible do Fall upon a circle ansivering to
  17. chesuns Disque. For this iras proved in che chird Experi-
  18. ment. By a circle I understand noc here a pertect Ceo-
  19. metrical Circle, buc any Orbicular Figure whose lenoth is
  20. equal ro its breadeh, and wrhich, as to sense, mar scem
  21. circular. Let cheretore AO reprelent the circle wrhich all
  22. che most Retransible Rays propasaced trom che whole
  23. Disque ot the sun, vould illuminace and paint uxon the
  24. oppolice Wall it chey vere alone; LL che circle which aI)
  25. the least Retranoible Rars ould in like manner illuminare
  26. and paine it cher irere alone; BHI, CT, DR, che circles
  27. wrhich (o manx intermediare Pores ot Rars rould succel-
  28. hvely paint upon che Wall, it cher iere linglr propasaced
  29. trom the sun in succeltire Order, che rest being alivars in-
  30. tercepted; And conceire chac there are other intermediare
  31. Circles rithout number irtrich innumerable ocher incer-
  32. mediare Corrs ot Rays ould successirely paint uxon che
  33. nall it che sun Chould succetsirely emic erery POrE aparE.
  34. And

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 26. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0036?run=74