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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 39

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  1. OF 45 degrees, A its RectangulaF V extex, FMI a beam oF.
  2. the suns Lighe let into a darke Room chrouoh a hole
  3. one chird part of an tnch broad, M its Incidence on theBale
  4. oF che Prilm, MI C a lels retracted Ray, MI HI a more retract-
  5. ed RaY, HI N che beam of Lighe reflected trom the Bale,
  6. V X Y che second Prism by irtrich chis beam in passins
  7. chrouoh ic is retracted, NV+ che lels retracted Lighe oF this
  8. beam, and Np the more retracted part chereot. When che
  9. trst Prilm AB C is curned abouc ies Axis accordins co the
  10. order ot the LetterS AB C, che RaYS M H emerge more
  11. and more obliquelr our ot chat Prilm, and ac lenoch atter
  12. cheir most oblique Emergence arc reflected comards I,
  13. and goins on to p do increale che number of che RayS VI p.
  14. Atcerrrards by continuine che mocion of che tirst Prilm, che
  15. RaySMTC are alo reflected ro WI and increale che number ot
  16. the RayS NF. And cheretore che Li∞HE MI N admits into
  17. us Compolition, trst che more Retransible RayS, and chen
  18. the less Retransible Rars, and vec atcer this Compolicion
  19. 15 oFche Pare Nacure rrich che sun simmediare LighE FMI,
  20. che ReRlexion oF che specular Base B C caulins no AIter2-
  21. tion cherein.
  22. Exper. 10. Trro Prisins, which ivere alikce in Chape,
  23. cied so cogecher, thac their Axes and oppolue Sides beins
  24. Parallel, cher compoled a Parallelopiped.. And, che Sun
  25. Phining into my dark Chamber chrough a licele hole in che
  26. Windon-PhUE, I placed. thac Parallelopiped in his beam ac
  27. Come distance From chehole, in such a polture thac the AXeS
  28. OF the Prilms mighe be perpendicular eo che incidene RayS,
  29. and chac chole Rays being incident uxon che first Side ot
  30. one Prilm, mist 00 on chrouch che ciro contiguous Sides
  31. oF boch Prilms, and emerse out of the last Side oF the sc-
  32. cond Pris. This Side beino Parallet co the Arst Side ot
  33. che first Prilm, cauled che emergins Lighe to be Parallel
  34. C

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 39. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0049?run=74