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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 45

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  1. PROF. IV. PrOD. =
  2. T0 separate from one another the Tleteroseneous Rays of
  3. ta
  4. Compound Light.
  5. IFTF HleterogenconS Rays are in Pome meature sepa-
  6. rated From one anorhier by the Retraction ot che
  7. Prilm in che chird Fxperimene, and in the ffth Fxperiment
  8. by calcing arar che Penumbra trom the Rectilinear Sides ot
  9. the Coloured lmage, thac separation in those verr Reccili-
  10. near Sides or Araighe edges ot the Image becomes pertect.
  11. Buc in aIl places berween those rectilinear edges, thole in-
  12. numerable Circles chere described, which are severally illu-
  13. minated by Hlomogeneral Rays, by incerterins wich one
  14. another, and beins ererr ihere commixt, do render che
  15. Liohe Cufticiendy Compound. Buc il chele Circles, Whilst
  16. their Cenrers keep their distances and posirions, could be
  17. made less in Diamerer, cheir incertering one ith anocher
  18. and by consequence che mixture of che FICcerOgeneOUS
  19. RaYS Would be proportionally diministred. In che 23ch Fig. 23.
  20. Figure lec AG, BFI, CT, DR, EL, FM bC the Circles
  21. erhich (0 many fores of Rays Aorwing trom che lame Dilque
  22. oF the Sun, do in che chird Experiment illuminate; oF aII
  23. irtrich and innumerable octrer incermediare ones lyins in a
  24. Continual Series beteen che erro Rectilinear and Parallel
  25. edges ot che suns oblons Imase P P, chac Image is com-
  26. poled as as explained in che fitch Experiment. And lec
  27. a8, bh, ci, dk, et, fm be (0 many lels Circles lying in
  28. a like continual series berireen erro Parallel righe Lines a f
  29. and em with che same distances becireen cheir CenterS,
  30. and illuminated by ehe same POrts oF RaYS, chat is che
  31. Circle a 8 wrich the lame Pore by irhich che correspondine
  32. Circle

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 45. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0055?run=74