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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 40

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  1. cocheincident. Then, berond these evo Prisns P placed
  2. 2 chird, uhich mighe retract chac emergene Liolc, and by
  3. thac Retraction cast che ulual Colours oF ehe Prism upon
  4. che oppotire Wall, or upon a Theec of Wvtrice P’aper held at
  5. 2 conreniene distance behind che Prilm For chac cefracted
  6. Lighero Fall upon ic. ACrer this Pcurned the Paralleloxived
  7. abone ies Aris, and Found chac irhen che contiouons Sides
  8. oF the ervo Prilms became (0 oblique eo che incident R ays
  9. thac chose Rays began all ot chemi ro be reflected, chole
  10. Rars irhich in che chird Prim had suftered che creacest Re-
  11. Fraction and painced che Paper wich riolet and bleur, rvere
  12. tirst ot all br a cocal Rellexion calcen oue ot che cransmitred
  13. Lighe, che rest remainins and on che P’aper paincine cheir
  14. Colours of Oreen; Vellon, Orange, and Red as betore;
  15. and afcermards by concinuing che morion otthe cmo Prisms,
  16. the rest ot che Rays also br a cocal Rellexion ranisted in
  17. order, accordino co cheir deorees ot Retrangibilier. The
  18. Lighe cheretore irtrich emerged oue ot ehe cro Prisms is
  19. compounded oE Rars differenely Retransible, secing che
  20. more Retrangible Rars may be caken out of ic wrhile che
  21. less Retransible remain. Buc chis Lighe being crajected
  22. only chrouoh che Parallel Superficies ot che crro Prisins, it
  23. ic suttered any change by che Retraction ot one Superficies
  24. ic lost chat impression by the concrary Retraction of che
  25. other Superficies, and (o being restored eo ies pristine con-
  26. sticution became ot che lame nacure and condirion as ac Erst
  27. betore ils Incidence on chose Prilms; and cheretore, betore
  28. its Incidence, ias as much compounded of Rays differenelr
  29. Retrangible as atcerrards.
  30. Illustration. In che 22th Figure AB C and B CD are che
  31. the cruo Prilms cied cogecher in che form ot a Parallelo-
  32. piped, cheir Sides B C and CB beins contionous, and
  33. cheir Sides AB and C D Parallel. And FIY K is the chird
  34. Prilmm.
  35. 18. 22.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 40. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0050?run=74