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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 76

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  1. lenocti, made rich a concare Fre-Olass, I conld read at a
  2. preater distance with my omn Instrumene chan wich che
  3. Cla(5. Vec Objects appeared much darker in ic chan in chc
  4. Olass, and chac parely because more Lighe was los by re-
  5. Rexion in che Mecal, chen by refraction in the Cla(s, and
  6. parcly because my Instrumene ras overcharoed. FTad ic
  7. magnitied buc 30or 25 times it mouldhare madeche Object
  8. appear more briske and plealane. Tiro oF chelelmade abour
  9. 16Tcars 200, and trare one ot chem Aill by me by whick
  10. P. Can prove che cruch of whac l wrice. Tec it is noc l0g00d
  11. 25 ac the Arst. For che concare has been divers rimes car-
  12. nistred and cleared again, by rubbing ic wich rery Potc L ca-
  13. cher. When I made chese, an Arrist in London underrook
  14. eo imicace ic; buc ulins anocher war ot polistring chem
  15. ehan I did, he FelI much PhOrE oF what I had actained tO,
  16. 25 I alcermards understood by discourtino the under- W Ork-
  17. man he had implozed. The Polish luled as on chisman-
  18. ner. Phad erro round Copper Places cach sx Tnches in
  19. Diameter, the one conrex chie ocher concare, ground re-
  20. ey crue to one anocher. On the conrex I oround che Ob-
  21. ject. ecal or concare irhich iras eo be polistid, eill ic had
  22. calcen the Fioure ot the conrex and was readr For a Polistr.
  23. Fhen Ipicched over che conrex very chinly, by dropping
  24. melced pitch uxon ic aud warmine ic eo kecp the pirch
  25. TOF, Wrhilst I ground ic rich the concare Copper werred to
  26. makie ic spread erenty all over the convex. Phusby work-
  27. ins ic well I made ic as thin 25a Croac, and atcer the con-
  28. rex ras cold Iground ic again 1o sire it as true a Figure 25
  29. Icould. Then P cook Pucer wrhich L had made very fine
  30. by walhins ic trom all ies groller Particles, and lavins a lic-
  31. de oF chis upon the picch, I ground ic uxon che Pirch wich
  32. che concare Copper till ic had done makins a noise; and
  33. then upon che Pirch Peround che Object. Mecal with a brisk
  34. Mocion

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 76. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0086?run=74