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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 27

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  1. And seeing the Sun emies all chese sOrES ac oncC, chey must
  2. all cogccher illuminace and paine innumerable equal cir-
  3. cles, oF allirhich, being according eo cheir degrees oF RC-
  4. Fransibilier placed in order in a continual series, that ob-
  5. lons Spectrum P P is compoled irhich I delcribed in the
  6. chird Experimene. Nou it che suns circular Image Y
  7. irtrich is made by an unrefracted beam ot Lighe was by
  8. any dilatation ot che single Rays, or by anr ocher irregu-
  9. larier in the Retraction ot the Arst Prilm, conrerted into
  10. che Oblono Spectrum, P V: then oughe erery circle AO,
  11. BII, C J, exc. in thac Spectrum, by che crols Retra-
  12. ction ot che second Prilm again dilatins or ochermile
  13. Scarrering che Rays as before, to be in like manner drawn
  14. ouc and eranstormed into an Oblons Figure, and chereby
  15. the breadch of the Image P P ould be no as much aug-
  16. mented as the lenoth ot che Imase Y was betore by che Re-
  17. Fraction ot the first Prism; and chus by che Retractions ot
  18. boch Prisms cogether ould be formed a Foursquare Figure
  19. pr +7 25. I described abore. Wheretore Cince the breaden ot
  20. the Spectrum P T is noc increaled by che Retraction Side-
  21. Ways, ic is cerrain chac che Rays are noc split or dilaced, Or
  22. ochermars irregularty scacrered by chac Retraction, buE
  23. thac erery circle is by a regular and unitorm Retraction
  24. eranclate d entire into anocher place, as che circle AC by
  25. the oreatest Retraction into che place ag, the circle BII by
  26. a lels Retraction inco the place bh, the circle CF bY 2 RC-
  27. Fraction sill less inco the place ci, and 50 oF che rett; by
  28. Which means a nem Spectrum pt inclined co che FOrmer
  29. D T is in likce manner compoled ot circles lyins in 2
  30. riohe Linc; and these circles must be ot che same bignels
  31. rich the Former becanse the breadths ot aII che Spe-
  32. Arums Y, P T and pF ac equal distances trom the Prisns
  33. are equal.
  34. lCO1L

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 27. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0037?run=74