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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 31

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  1. made in ic, and che rest be intercepced by che Board.
  2. Then ac che distance ot aboue evelre Feccfrom the Arst
  3. Board I Axed che orher Board, in such manner chac che
  4. midale of che refracted Liphe Which came chrouoh che hole
  5. in che first Board and fell upon che opposice WalI mighe
  6. Pals chrouch che hole in ehis ocher Board, and che rest bC-
  7. ins intercepted by che Board miphe paint upon ic theco-
  8. loured Spectrum oF the Sun. And close behind this Board
  9. I fixed anocher Prism eo refract che Lighe irtich came
  10. chrouph che hole. Then P recurned spccdily eo che Rrst
  11. Prilm, and br curming ic Rowtr to and tro aboue its AXis,
  12. Icaused che Image irhich Fell upon che second Board eo
  13. more up and donn uxon chac Board, chac all IES PaTES
  14. mighe succeslirelr pals chrough che hole in thac Board and
  15. Fali uxon che Prism behind ic. And in che mean time, L
  16. noced che places on che oppolice Wall eo irhich that Lighe
  17. aEcer ies Retraction in che second Prism did pals; and by
  18. che difference ot che places I Found thac the Lighe irtrich
  19. being most retracted in the first Prilm did 90 eo the blev
  20. end ot chc Image, was 2gain more refracted in che second
  21. Prilm chanthe Liohe wrtrich wene coche red end et chat
  22. Image, Wrhich prores as well che Airst Proposition a5 the
  23. second. And ehis happened whether the Axis of che emo
  24. Prilms ivere parallel, or inclined ro one anocher and eo che
  25. tlorizon in any siren Angles.
  26. Illustration. L ec F be che ide hole in the Windo-PHUE, Fic. 18
  27. chrouoh irhich che sun Phines upon che first Prilm ABC,
  28. and lec the retracted Lighe Fal uxon the midale ot che
  29. BOard DC, and che middle pare of thac Lighe upon che
  30. hole O miade in che middle oF thac BOard. Lec this Era-
  31. jected pare oF the Liohe fall again upon che middle of the
  32. second Board de and chere paine such an oblons coloured
  33. mage of the sun as as described in thethird ExperimenE.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 31. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0041?run=74