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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 62

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  1. poine trom whence che Rays Ro is co che distance be-
  2. erreen thac lucid poine and che Lens verr nearty.
  3. Non co examine whecher che difference berrmeen theRe-
  4. Fractions irhich che most retrangible and che least retran-
  5. sible Rays Aoming trom che lame poine sufter in the Ob-
  6. ject. Clasles oF Telelcopes and such like Clases, DC (O OPCAE
  7. a5 is here described, I contrired che Folloins Experi-
  8. ment.
  9. Exper. 16. The Lens which I uled in che second and
  10. eiehcha Tixpcrimenes, being placed Ex Feet and an Tuch dil-
  11. eant Crom any Object, collected che Species ot chat Object
  12. by che mean retransible Rays ac che distance Ot (IX Fece
  13. and an Juch From che Lens on che other Cde. And CherC-
  14. Foreby che Foregoing Rule ic oughero collect the Speciesot
  15. chat Object by che lcast retransible Rays ac the distance ot
  16. SIX Fcer and z 2 Inchestrom the Lens, and by che most re-
  17. Frangible ones ac che distance of fire Fcet and 10: Inches
  18. Erom ic: S0 chac becween the eno Places where these least
  19. and most retransible Rays collect che species, there may
  20. De che distance ot about 5: Inches. For by thac Rule, 25
  21. Sx Feec and an Inch (che distance of che Lens Erom the
  22. lucid Objece) is eo evelre Fece and ewo Tnches (che di-
  23. Rance of che lucid Objece From che Focus of che mean re-
  24. Frangible RaY5) chac is, as one is eo cro, (0 is the 273th
  25. parc oF six Feec and an Inch (che distance becween che L ens
  26. and che Came Focus) to the distance betmeen the Focus ot
  27. che most retransible Rays and che Foeus ot che least re
  28. transible ones, irtich is theretore s = Inches, thac is very
  29. nearly s: Tnches. Non to Hnom irhecher ehis mealure
  30. ras erue, P repeated che second and cioheh Experiment ot
  31. chisBook wich coloured Lighe, irtrich nas less compound-
  32. ed ehan chac I chere made ile OF: FOr L no separared che
  33. HCTCTO.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 62. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0072?run=74