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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 51

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The machine reads it as

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  2. Elasses, ane not such as is ulually vrouohe wich PTY,
  3. Whereby che cdees oF che Sandholes beins worn awar,
  4. there are lete all orer the Clals a numberlels companr ot
  5. very licele Conrex police rilines likce Wares. The edges
  6. allo ot che Prilm and Lens (0 tar a5 cher may maktce any
  7. irregular Refraction, must be corered ith a black Paper
  8. olemed on. And all che Liphe of the sunsbeam let into
  9. the Chamber irtich is useless and inproticable ro thC FXs
  10. perimene, ouohe cobe incercepced ich black Paper Or Ocher
  11. black Obstacles. For ochermise che uselels Liphe beins
  12. refected erery iay in che Chamber, ill mix wich che
  13. oblons spectrum and help eo disturb ic. In erying chele
  14. chines so much Diligence is noc altogether neceltary, but
  15. ic ill promote che succels of che Experiments, and by 2
  16. very scrupulous Examiner ot thines déserres to be applicd.
  17. ses difficule eo set slals Prilms sic For ehis purpole, and
  18. and cheretore lused Cometimes Prilmatick Vetsels made
  19. wich pieces ot broken Looking. glasses, and filled wich rain
  20. NaceT. And eo increase che Retraction, ICometimes im-
  21. pregnaced che W acer Aronsly rich Saccharum Saturni.
  22. PROP. V. THCOT. IV.
  23. FTomozeneal Lieht is refracted recularte mithout any Dilatation
  24. splittins or satterine of thé Rays, and the confused Vision
  25. of Objects seen throuch Refractinz Bodies by Fheterogeneal
  26. Lieht arises from che different Refrangibility of several sorts
  27. of Ray5.
  28. IHIE Ars ParE oF ehis Proposicion has been alreads
  29. sufticieney prored in che fitch Experimene, and will
  30. furcher appear by che Experimenes whichi tollon.
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 51. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0061?run=74