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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 52

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  1. Fxper. 12. In the midale of a black Paper I made 2
  2. round hole about a ftch or sixch parc ot an Tnch in Dia-
  3. meter. Upon chis Paper I cauled che Spectrum ofHlomo-
  4. geneal Lighe described in the Former Proposition, (010
  5. fail, chac Come parc of che Lighe mishue pals chrouch che:
  6. hole of che Paper. This transmitred parr of che Liohe l
  7. retracted rith a Prilm placed behind che Paper, and ler-
  8. cing chis retracted Lighe tall perpendicularly uxon a whice
  9. P’aper erro or chrec Feet distant trom che Prism, I Found
  10. chac che Spectrum Formed on che Paper by chis Liohe ras
  11. noc oblone, a5 irhen eis made (in che chird Experiment)
  12. By Retractins ehe suns compound Liphe, buc was ((0 Far
  13. 25 I could judsc by my Fyc) pertectlr circular, thelenoch
  14. being no oreacer chan the breadch. Which Phens chac this
  15. Lighe is retracted regularly ichout an Dilaration of the
  16. Ray5.
  17. Exper. 13. In che Hlomogeneal Liphe I placed a Circle
  18. oF: ot an Tuch in Diamecer, and in che suns unretracted
  19. Hlecerogencal Wrhice LigheI placed anocher Paper Circle ot
  20. chelame bignels. Andgoinstromthe Paperstochedistance
  21. oFlome Feet, Ivieved boch Circles chrouoh a Prism. The
  22. Circle illuminate d by thesun sHleterogeneal Lighe appear-
  23. ed rery oblone as in che fourch Experiment, che lenoch
  24. being many cimes orcater chan che breadth: buc che ocher
  25. Circle illuminated wich Hlomogeneal Lighe appeared Cir-
  26. cular and distinctli defined as when eis vierred wich che
  27. nakced Fyc. Which proves the whole Proposition.
  28. Exper. 14. In che Homogeneal LigheI placed Flies and
  29. Tuch like Minuce Objects, and vicwins chem chrough a
  30. Prism, I Pa cheir Parrs as distinetly defined as it Phad
  31. riemedchem rich che naked Ere. Phe lame Objects pla-
  32. ced in che suns unretracted Flererogeneal Liphe ihich as
  33. nhire l viered also chrouoh a Prism, and Pam them most
  34. contuledly

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 52. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0062?run=74