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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 30

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  1. The Pame ching Pery d also by lecting che suns Lighe
  2. into a darke Room chrough erro licele round holes Fando
  3. made in che indon, and wich erro Parallel Pritns ABC
  4. and aβ3 placed ac those holes (one at cach) retractine
  5. chose erro beams of Lighe eo che oppolire WVaIl of che
  6. Chamber, in such manner thar che cvo colourd Images
  7. P T and mn irhrich cher chere painced vere jorned end co
  8. end and lay in one sraighe Line, the red end Y oF chc
  9. one couching che blew end m ot che other. For it chele
  10. evo retracted beams ivere apa in by a chird Prism D II pla-
  11. ced crost co the ero ArI, retracted Siderrars, and the Spe-
  12. ctrums cherebr cranslaced to lome other pare ot the Wall
  13. ot che Chaber, suppole the Spectrum PI +o pF and
  14. the Spectrum MXIcomn, chese cranslaced Spectrums pt
  15. andmn vould noc lie in one sraiohe Linc wich their ends
  16. conciouous as betore, buc be broken oft from one anocher
  17. and become Parallel, the bleur end ot che lmage mnbeing
  18. by a orcacer Retraction cranslaced Carcher From its Former
  19. place MT, chanche red endt of che ocher Imase pt trom
  20. che tame place MIT itrich purs che Propolition past di-
  21. spute. And chis happens rhether che chird Prism D HIBC
  22. placed immediacely atcer che cwo First or ac 2 oreat distance
  23. trom them, (0 chac che Lighe retracted in che ero Arst
  24. Prisns De cicher irtrice and circular, or coloured and ob-
  25. lono when ic Falls on che chird.
  26. Fxper. 6. In che midele ot ero chin Boards L made
  27. round holes a chird part ot an Inch in Diameter, and in
  28. the Windon. Phuc a much broader hole, beino made to lec
  29. inco my darkned Chamber a larse beam ot che Suns
  30. Lighe; I placed a Prilm behind che Strut in chat DeaM EO
  31. retract ic corards che oppolice Wall, and clole behind che
  32. Prism I Exed one ot che Boards, in luch manner chac che
  33. middle of che retracted Lighe mighe pals chrouoh che hole
  34. made
  35. Fig. 17.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 30. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0040?run=74