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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 74

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  1. ehic Cubes ofche apertures ofthe Object. Glasses; and thence
  2. eo makce Telescopes of rarious lenochs, magnity wich equal
  3. 28
  4. distinctnels, the apertures ot che Object-Glalles, and the
  5. Charges or magnitrine Porers, oushc to bcas the Cubes ot
  6. ehic (quare RoOrS oF cheir lenochs; irhich dorh noc ansiver
  7. EO Experience. Buc che errors of che Rays arising From
  8. the different retrangibilicr, are 25 the apertures ot che Ob.
  9. ject. Classes, and chence eo make Telescopes oF rarious
  10. lenochs, magnify rich cqual distinctnels, their apertures and
  11. charses ouphe ro be. 25 the (quare RoOrs oF their lengetis;
  12. and chis ansivers to experience 25 is vell knoWn. For in-
  13. Aance, a Pelelcope oF 64 Feet in lenoch, ich an aperture
  14. OF 22 Tnches, magnities abour 120 cimes, with as much dis-
  15. tinctnels as one oF a Foor in lengeh, with = of an Inch aper
  16. cure, magnities 15 times.
  17. Non ivere it noc for this differene retransibiliey oF RayS,
  18. Pelescopes miphe be brouche to a greater Perfection than
  19. re hare ret described, by composine che Object-Clals ot
  20. erro Glasses rich Wacer Becreen cheM. L EE ADFC repre
  21. sent che Object-Clals compoled ot rmo Classes ABFD and
  22. and BEFC, alike conrex on the outsides AOD and CTIE,
  23. and alike concare on che insides BMTE, BNE, wich Wacee
  24. in the COnCariEY BMTENT. Lec che Sinc ot Incidence ou ef
  25. ClaS inEO Air bC 2SIEO R and ONE OF W aCeT INEO RIr 1S R
  26. EOR, and by consequence out ot Cla(s into WV ater 25 T +0
  27. K: and let the Diameter oF che Sphere to which the conrex
  28. Sides ACD and CFIF are ground be. D; and the Diameter
  29. of the Sphere eo irhich che concare sides BMIF and BNF
  30. are ground beto D, 25 the CuDC ROOE OF HK -HI eo che
  31. CuDC ROOE OF RK = RI: and che ReFractions on the con-
  32. care sides of the Classes, rill verr much correct the Prrors
  33. of che Retractions on the conrex sides, (0 tar as they arise
  34. trom che sphericalnels oF che Figure. And by chis means
  35. mighe

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 74. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0084?run=74