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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 46

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  2. Circle RC was illuminated, and che Circle bh rith thesame
  3. Porc by ihich che corresponding Circle BHIas illuminated,
  4. and the rest of the Circles ci, dR el, fm respectirelr.
  5. rich che Came Corrs oF Rays by irhich che several corre-
  6. sponding Circles CT, DK, F L, FM ivere illuminated.
  7. In cheFigure P P compoled ot che orcater Circles, chree
  8. ot those Circles AG, BH, CJ, are (0 expanded into one
  9. anocher, chac che chree (orts oF RayS by itrich chole Cir-
  10. cles are illuminated, cogether wich ocher innumerable POreS
  11. oF incermediare Rays, are mixed ac QR in che midale of
  12. che CireleBFI. And che like mixture happens chrouoh-
  13. out almost che ihole lenseh oF che Ligure PI. Buc in
  14. che Figure pr compoled ot che lels Circles, che chrec lels
  15. Circles ag, bh, ci, Which ansiver to chose chree greater, do
  16. nOF extend into one anocher; nor are chere aur ntere
  17. minsled (o much 25 any erro of che chree Pores oF RaYS
  18. by irtich chose Circles are illuminated, and ihich in che
  19. Figure P T are all oF chem incerminoled ac BFI.
  20. No hochac Phall thus consider ic, ill casily understand
  21. chac che mixture is diminithed in che Came Proportion
  22. wich che Diameters oF che Circles. IF the Diamerers ot
  23. che Circles whils cheir Cencers remain che lame, be made
  24. chrec times lels chan betore, che mixcure will bc also chrec
  25. cimes lels; il cen cimes lels, the mixture will be cen eimes
  26. lels, and (o of ocher Proportions. Thacis, the mixture
  27. OF che Rays in chegrearer Figure P I will be co cheir mix-
  28. cure in che lels pt, 25 che Lacitude of the greater Figure is
  29. co che Lacieude ot che lels. For che Lacicudes of these Fi-
  30. oures are equal co che Diameters ot cheir Circles. And
  31. hence ic easily follons, thac che mixture oF che Rays in che
  32. retracted Spectrum pF is to che mixture ol che Rays in the
  33. direet and immediare Liohe oF chesun, as che breadth oF
  34. chac Spectrum is coche ditterence bermeen che lengeh and
  35. breadch ot chelame Spectrum.
  36. Sc

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 46. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0056?run=74