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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 41

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  1. Prism, by which thesuns Lighe propagated chrough che
  2. hole F into che dark Chamber, and chere passine chrouoh
  3. those Sides oF the Prims AB, BC, CB and CD, is retra-
  4. ctedat Ocorhenhite Paper P P, Falline chere parrly upon
  5. e by a creater Retraction, parely upon Y by a less Retra-
  6. ction, and parely upon R and ocher intermediace places by
  7. intermediare Refractions. By turnins che Parallelopiped
  8. ACBD abouE ies Aris, accordins eo the order of the L er-
  9. TerS A, C, D, B, at lenoch when che contiouous Planes BC
  10. and CB become (ufficientlr oblique co che Rays IM,
  11. irhrich are incidene upon them ac MI, there ill ranish co-
  12. callu ont ot che retracted Liohe OP T, Arst oF all che most
  13. retracted RaysOP, (the rest OR and O I remainins 25
  14. before) chen che RarS OR and orher intermediate ones,
  15. and lastlr, che least retracted RayS OT. For When che
  16. Plane BC Decomes sufficientty oblique eo the Rays inci-
  17. dent upon ic, chose Rays will bcoin eo be tocally reftect-
  18. ed by ic comards N; and first che most Retrangible Rays
  19. will be cocallr reflected (as mas explained in the precedins
  20. experiment) and by consequence must first disappear ac P,
  21. and afcermards che rest as cher are in order cocally rehect-
  22. ed eo N, cher must disappear in che lame order ac R and
  23. T. S0 chen che Rays irhich at O sufter che grearest RC-
  24. Fraction, may be caken onc ot che Lighe MIO whilst the rest
  25. ofthe Rays remain in ic, and cherefore that LighE MO is
  26. Compounded of Rays difterently Retrangible. And be-
  27. cause che Planes AB and CD are parallel, and cheretore
  28. by equal and concrary Retractions destroy one anothers
  29. Ffects, the incident LighE F NI must BC oF che same kind
  30. and nacure wich the emergent Lighe MO, and cheretore
  31. doch also consist ot Rays difterenely Retrangible. These
  32. erro Liohes FMI and MO, betore che most retrangible RarS
  33. are separated oue oF che emersent Lighe MIO agrec in C0-
  34. TOur.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 41. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0051?run=74