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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 56

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  1. ips R ectilincar Sides, did hen produced pals exactly chrouoh
  2. the midale ot thac white round Image S. And when che
  3. Refraction of the second Prilm ras equal eo the Retraction
  4. oF chetirst, che retractins Angles ot chem boch being about
  5. 60 decrees, che Axis ot che spectrum 3P 3t made by chac
  6. Retraction, did ihen produced pals allo chroueh che mid
  7. ile of che lame irtrice round Image S. Buc When the RC
  8. Fraction of che sccond Prilm as lels chan chac of the Arst,
  9. che produced Axes oF the Spectrums FP Or 2+ 2p made
  10. by chat Retraction did cur che produced Axis oF the SpC-
  11. ctrum TP in che Poines m andn, a licele berond che Cen-
  12. cer ot chac nhice round Image S. Whence the Proportion
  13. OFche. Linc 3+T eo che Linc 3 p P was a licele orcarer chan
  14. hePrOpOrtiOn OF 2FT +02 pP, and chis Proporcion a licele
  15. oreater than chat OFFT eO pP. Now when che Lighe ot
  16. che Spectrum P TFalls perpendicularty uxon the W all, chosc
  17. Lines 3FT, 3PP, and 2F l, 2P P and+P, pP, are che l’an-
  18. genes of che Retractions; and cheretore by chis Experiment
  19. che Proportions of the langenrs of che Retractions are ob-
  20. cained, trom Whence che Proportions ot chesinesbeins derir-
  21. ed, cher come out equal, (0 taras br viering the spectrums
  22. and ulins lome Machemacical realonins I could Estimate.
  23. For I did noc make an Accurace C omputation. S0 then
  24. che Propolition holds erue in every Ray apart, (0 Far 25 ap-
  25. pearsby Experiment. And thac ic is accurately true may
  26. be demonstraced uxon chis Suppolicion, That Bodies refract
  27. Zicht by acting upon its Rays in Lines Perpendicular to their
  28. Surfaces. Buc in order eo chis Demonstration, I muct di-
  29. Cinguith che Mocion ot erery Ray into tuo Mocions, che
  30. one Perpendicular to the retractins Surtace, the other Pa-
  31. rallel coic, and concernins che Perpendicular Mocion lay
  32. donn chetollorins Propolition.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 56. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0066?run=74