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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 53

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  1. contusedly detined, (o chat Lcould noc distinguiltr cheir smat
  2. ler Pares trom onc anocher. I placed also che L etters oF a
  3. lmall Princ one while in che Hlomogencal Lighe and chen
  4. in che Heterogencal, ana riemins chem chrouoh a Prilm,
  5. cher appeared in the larrer case (0 contuled and indistinct
  6. chac L could noc read chem; buc in che former they ap-
  7. Peared (0 distinct chac l could read readily, and choughe
  8. L.Cam chem as distinct a5 irhen I viered chem wich ny
  9. naked Ere. In boch cases I ricred che lame Objects
  10. chrouoh che lame Prism ac che lame distance trom me and
  11. in che lame Sicuation. There ras no difference buc in the
  12. Lighe by irhich che Objects iere illuminated, and ertich
  13. in onc case mas simple and in che ocher Compound, and
  14. cheretore che distinet Vision in che former case and contu-
  15. sed in che lacter conld arise trom noching elle chan trom
  16. chac difference ot che Lighes. Which prores che wrhole
  17. Propolirion.
  18. And in chele chree Experiments ic is Further verr remar-
  19. hable, chac che Colour ot Homogeneal Lighe ras nerer
  20. chansed by che Retraction.
  21. DROP. VI. THCOT. V
  22. The Sine of. Incidence of every Ray considered apart, is to ils Sine
  23. of. Refraction in a siven Ratio.
  24. ITI A Y every Ray considered apare is constant to
  25. it Celt in Pome certain derree ot Retrangibilier, is
  26. Cufticienely manifest out of wrhat has been Caid. Thole
  27. Rays which in che Arst Retraction are ac equal Incidences
  28. most retracted, arc also in che follomine Retractions at
  29. equal Incidences most retracted; and (0 oF che least R e-
  30. trangible, and che rest which hare auy mean degree ot
  31. Retran-

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 53. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0063?run=74