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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 57

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  1. IF any Motion or moving ching wrhacloerer be incident
  2. rich ans relocier on any broad and chin space termina-
  3. ced on boch sides by erro Parallel Planes, and in its paltage
  4. chroush chac space bc urged perpendiculartr corrards the
  5. turcher Plane by any Force irhich at siren distances trom
  6. che Plane is of given quancicies; the perpendicular Velo-
  7. ciey ot chat Mocion or Thing, ac its emergins out of chac
  8. Space, Ball bc alvars equal eo the Square ROOE oF chc
  9. Summ oF che Square ot che perpendicular Velociey ot
  10. ehac Norion Or Thins at ies Incidence on thac space;
  11. and ot che Square ot che perpendicular Velociey irhich
  12. chac Mocion or Thing vould hare ac ies Emergence, il
  13. ac iis Incidence irs perpendicular Velocier as intinicely
  14. licele.
  15. And che same Proxosition holds Erre OF anv. NTOtiOn OF
  16. Fhins perpendicularty recarded in ies pastage chrouoh chac
  17. Space, it instead of the summ ot che ero Squares rou cake
  18. cheir difference. The Demonstration Machemaricians will
  19. calily find out, and cheretore I CalI noc trouble the Rea-
  20. der wich ic.
  21. Suppose nom chac a Ray comins most obliquely in che Fiz. 1.
  22. Line MIC be retracted at C by che Plane RS inco che Line
  23. CHI, and it ic be reguiredt co End che Line CF inco which
  24. any ocher Ray AC ThaII be retracted; let MIC, AD, BC
  25. the sines ot incidence of che tvo RaYS, and NTC, FF, cheir
  26. Sines of Retraction, and lec the equat Morions of che In-
  27. cident Rays be represented by chc equal Lines MI C and
  28. AC, and che Morion MC being considered as parallel to
  29. che retractins Plane, lec the ocher Mocion AC bC distin-
  30. Suihed InEO EIVO NTOtiOnS AD and DC, one ot irhich
  31. AD is parallel, and che orher DC perpendicular to the re
  32. tractino surtace. In like manner, lec the Mocions oF che
  33. emerins Rays be distinguistrd inco cro, Whereot the per-
  34. pendicular

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 57. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0067?run=74