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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 32

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  1. By curnino che Prilm ABC. RoIy eo and Fro aboue its
  2. Axis this Imase will be made ro more ux and donn che
  3. Board de, and by chis means allits parts trom onc end to
  4. the ocher mar be made eo pals successively chronoh the
  5. hole s which is made in the middle of chac Board. In the
  6. mean while anocher Prilm ab c iS to bc Axed nexe atrer
  7. chac hole e to retract the crajected Lighe a second cime.
  8. And chele chines beins chus ordered, l marked che places
  9. UI and NV oF che oppolire Wall upon which the refracted
  10. Lighe Fell, and Found chac whils the erro Boards and second
  11. Prilm remained unmored, chole places by curmins the trst
  12. Prilm abour ies Aris ivere changed perperuallr. For When
  13. thc lorver pare of che Lighe which tell uxon che second
  14. Board de Was cast chrouoh the hole e ic went to a lorver
  15. place M on che WVaII, and when che hioher parE OF ChAE
  16. Liphe vas cast chrough che lame hole g, ic vent ro a higher
  17. Place NI on che W all, and when any incermediare pare ot
  18. he Liohe Wras cast chrough chat hole ic venero lome place
  19. on che W all becircen MI ard H. The unchanged Policion
  20. OF che holes in che Boards, made the Incidence ot che Rays
  21. lipon che second Prilm to be che lame in aIl cales. And
  22. vec in chac common Incidence lome oF che Rays ere more
  23. retracted and others lels. And chole ivere more retracted
  24. in ehis Prilm erhich by a greater Retraction in the AirI
  25. Prilm ere more turned out ot the maz, and cheretore For
  26. cheir constaney ot beins more retracted are deserredly cal-
  27. led more Retrangible.
  28. Exper. 7. Ac cuo holes made near one anocher in my
  29. Windo-Phuc I placed cro Prisims, one ar cach, irhich
  30. mighe cast upon che oppolire Wall (atter the manner ot
  31. the chird Experimene) tro oblons coloured Images ofche
  32. Sun. And ac a licele distance trom che Wall I placed a
  33. lons Pender Paper wich straiohe and Parallet edges, and
  34. ordered

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 32. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0042?run=74