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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 70

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  1. Circle Wvtrose Diameter i5 = S cub.
  2. D quad. Very nearly, 25 Y 92-
  3. ther by compucins che Frrors oF che Rays by che method
  4. oF infinice series, and rejecting che Perms irhose quanti
  5. ciries are inconsiderable. As For inistance, it the sine ofln-
  6. cidence I, bc to che Sinc oF Retraction R, 25 20 t0 31, and
  7. it D che Diameter of che Sphere to which che Conrex side
  8. oF che Cilass is ground, bc 100 Fcet or 1200 Inches, and
  9. S che Semidiamerer ot che aperture be cuo Inches, che
  10. R X S cub.
  11. Diameter oF che licele Circle (chac is T= D quad ) will DC
  12. X 8
  13. 20 X 1200X +200 (OF 2600000) Parts oF an Inch. BuE the
  14. Diamerer ot che licele Circle chrouph which chese RayS are
  15. scattered by unequal retrangibilier, will be abouc the 55ch
  16. pare ot che aperture ot the Object. Clals which here is FOuF
  17. Auches. And cheretore the Frror arisino From che spherical
  18. Figure of che Cla(s, is to che Error arising trom che disse-
  19. s
  20. rene Retrangibilier oF che RayS, 25 360
  21. e0 815I: and cheretore beins in Comparison lo very licele,
  22. delerres noc eo De considered.
  23. Buc rou will Car, il che Errors caused by che different re-
  24. Franoibilier be (0 very oreac, hon comes ic to pals chat Ob.
  25. jects appear chrough Pelescopes (o dictinet as eney do: l an-
  26. siver, Eis because che errino Rays are nor scarcere d uniform.
  27. Iy orer all chac circular space, but collected infinicely more
  28. denselr in che Center chan in anr ocher part ot the Circle,
  29. and in che may trom che Cencer ro che Circumterence oro
  30. continually rarer and rarer, (o a5 ac the Circumterence t0
  31. become intinitelr rare; and by realon ot cheir rariey are
  32. noc srone enouch eo bevisible, unlels in the Center and re-
  33. YY ReaT it. L ET ADF reprelene one ot chole Circles de-
  34. Scribed ich ehe Center C and Semidiamecer AC, and let
  35. BFO be 2 smaller Cirele concentrie eo che Former, curtine
  36. ith
  37. i

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 70. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0080?run=74