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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 44

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  1. C44
  2. perimenes; and sceing che Rays ihichdister in Retrangibi-
  3. lier may be parted and Corced trom onc anocher, and chat
  4. cither by Retraction as in the chird Experiment, or by Re-
  5. Aexion as in che centh, and chen che several COrES aPARE aE
  6. equal Incidences sufter unequal Retractions, and chole POrrS
  7. are more retracted than ochers atcer separation, wrhich vere
  8. more retracted betore ic, a5 in che sixch and Following Fx-
  9. perimenes, andit che sunsLighe be trajected chrouoh chrec
  10. ormore cross Prilins Successirelr, those Rars which in che
  11. turst Prilm are retracted more chan ochers are in all chetol-
  12. lomins Prilms, retracted more then ochers in che lame rate
  13. and proporcion, a5 appears by che fitth Experiment; itS
  14. manifest chac che Sun sLighe is an Hlecerogeneous mixture ot
  15. RarS, Lome oF nhich are constanels more Retrangible then
  16. Ochers, as was to be propoled.
  17. ROP. TII. THCOT. TTI.
  18. TheSuns Lieht consists of Pays differins in Reflexibility, and
  19. those Pays are more Reflexible than others which are more Re-
  20. frangible.
  21. VFTIS is manifest by che ninch and centh Experi-
  22. ents: For in che ninch Experiment, by curmine
  23. the Prilm about ies Axis, uneil che Rays wichin ic irhich in
  24. foins our into che Air ivere retracted by ies Bale, became
  25. (0 oblique to thac Base, as eo begin to be torallr reffected
  26. cherebr; chole Rays became Arst oF all corally reflected,
  27. irtrich betore at equal Incidences rich the rest had suffered
  28. the orearest Retraction. And che Came chins happens in
  29. the Rellexion made byche commonBase of che cwo Prims
  30. in cherench Experiment.
  31. PR

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 44. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0054?run=74