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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 77

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  1. Notion, for about ero or chree Minures ot rime, leanine
  2. hard uxon II. Then I puc Frech Pucer uxon che Pich and
  3. oround ic 2gain eill ic had done makcing a noise, and atter-
  4. wards ground che Object Metal upon ic as betore. And
  5. ehis Work I repeaced eill che Mecal vas polistred, grindine
  6. it che last eime ich alI my Srengch For 2000d while coge-
  7. cher, and trequener breaching upon che Picch to keep ic
  8. moist rithour lazins on aur more Frestr Puter. The Ob-
  9. sect. Metal iras evo Inches broad and aboue one third pare
  10. oF an Tuch chick, eo kecp ic trom bending. I had ewo ot
  11. chese Metals, and wten l had polithed chem boch I cried
  12. irtich ras best, and oround che ocher axain to sec if P conla
  13. makce ic beccer chan chac irtich IKepE. And chus by mans
  14. Frials I learne che way of polistrins, till I made thole tvo
  15. refectins Pespectires I spake oF abore. For this ArE ot
  16. polictiins will be becter learne by repeated Practice chan by
  17. my descripcion. Betore I ground che OBject Mecal on the
  18. Picch, I alivars oround che Puter on ic rich che concave
  19. Copper eill ic had done matins a noise, because it che Par-
  20. ticles oF che Puter vere noc by this means made co sick
  21. Fast in che Pitch, cher vould by rollins ux and donngrate
  22. and tret the Object Necal and AII ic FuIl ot licele holes.
  23. But because Necal is more difficule ro polith than Class
  24. and is aftermards very ape to be spoiled by carnilhins, and
  25. reflects nor (o much Lighe as Clals quick-silvered over does:
  26. Twould proxound conse insteadot theMecal, a Cilals ground
  27. concare on the Forelide, and as much conrex on the back-
  28. Side, and quick- Silrered orer on the convex Side. The Clals
  29. must be every irhere of che lame chicknels exactlr. Ocher-
  30. rile ic ill make Objects look coloured and indistinct. By
  31. Tuch a Cla(s P eried aboue five Or (IX Tears 290 to male
  32. a refectins Pelescope offour Fect in lensch eo magnity a-
  33. bour 150cimes, and IPatistied my selF chae chere WAnES nO-
  34. chino

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 77. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0087?run=74