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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 48

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  1. distances, wrhich T chink noc worth che while eo describe.
  2. Then immediacely atcer che Lens I placed a Prilm, by
  3. irtich che trajected Lighe mighe be retracted cicher up-
  4. wards or Cderrars, and chereby che round Imase which
  5. the Lens alone did cast upon the Paper mighe be drarn
  6. out inco a lono one wich Parallet sides, 25 in che chird
  7. Experiment. This oblono Image I lec Fall uxon anocher
  8. Paper ac aboue che Pame distance From che Priim 25 Be-
  9. Fore, morins che Paper cicher comards ehe Prism or From
  10. ic uneil I Found che just distance irhere che Rectilinear
  11. Sides of che Imase became most dictinct. For in this case
  12. the circular Images of chehole which compose thaclmage
  13. atcer the lame manner thac the Circles aq, bh, ci, _c. d0
  14. . D che Figure pF, vere cerminaced most distinetly withoue any
  15. Penumbra, and cheretore excended inco one anorher che
  16. least chac ther could, and by consequence the mixeure et
  17. the Hecerogeneous Rars mas no che least oF aIl. By chis
  18. jo. 22, neans Iused ro form an oblong Image (such as is pF) ot
  19. ma LA. circular Images of chehole (such a5 are a g, bh, c1, _C.)
  20. and by ulinz a orcater or less hole in the Windon-PBuE, I
  21. made the circular Images ag, bh, c1, _c. Ot which ic was
  22. Formed, to become orcarer or lels at plcasure, and chereby
  23. the mixture oF che Rars in che Image pt eo bc as much
  24. Or as licele as I desired.
  25. Fig. 24. Illustration. In che 24th Figure, F reprelenes che circular
  26. hole in he Windon-PhUE, NIN che Lens Whereby chc
  27. Imase or Species oF thac hole is cast distinctly uxon a
  28. PapeF aE J, AB C the Prilm whereby che Rays are ac cheir
  29. emeroins ouc of the Lens retracted From J corvards ano-
  30. cher Paper ac pt, and che round lmage ac F is curned into
  31. an oblong Tmage pr Falline on chat ocher Paper. This
  32. Imase pt consists ot Circles placed one alcer anocher in a
  33. Rectilinear order, as was sufticieney explained in che fiteh
  34. Experiment;

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 48. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0058?run=74