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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 78

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  1. thins buE 2 800d Artist co brins che desion to Pertection.
  2. For the Clals being irroughe by one ot our London Arcicts
  3. atter such 2 manner as cher grind Classes For Telelcopes,
  4. tho ic scemed as Well rouche a5 che Object Glastes ule 10
  5. be, vec when ic as quick- silrered, che reflerion dilcorered
  6. innumerable Inequalities all orer che Clals. And by reason
  7. ot chese Inequalicies, Objects appeared indictinet in chis In-
  8. ATUeHE. FOr the Errors ot reflected Rays caused by any
  9. Inequalier ofche Clals, are aboue lix times oreater than the
  10. Frrors ot retracted Rays caused by the like Inequalicies. Yet
  11. by chis Experimene I Pacisfied my selF thac the refterion on
  12. the concare side of che OlaIs, Which I Feared ronld disturb
  13. che rision, didno sensible prejudice ro ic, and by consequence
  14. chac nochins is mantins to pertect chele Telelcopes, bue
  15. oood Wortemen uho can grind and polith Glasses cruly sphe-
  16. rical. An Object Clals ot a tourtcen Foor Telescope, made
  17. BV one et our Pondon Artificers, I once mended considera
  18. bIy, by crindins ic on Dicch wich Puter, and leanins ve-
  19. ry casily on ic in che grinding, lest che Pucer Phould Scrarch
  20. ic. Whecher chis rar mas nov do ell enouoh For polistr
  21. ins chele reflecting Clalles, I have noc vet cried. Bue he
  22. chat Phallery cicher this or any ocher rar of polictrinq wrhich
  23. he mar chink becter, may do well eo make his Clasles rer
  24. dy For polictrins by grinding chem wichour chac violence,
  25. Whererich our London Workmen prels cheir Clasles in prind-
  26. ing. For by such riolent presture, Cilasses are ape eo bend
  27. 2 licele in che grindins, and suchbending will cerrainly spoil
  28. their Figure. Po recommend cherefore the consideration
  29. oF these reflectins Glasles, to such Artists aS are CuriOUS IH
  30. tixurins Classes, I Phall deseribe chis Oprical Instrument ip
  31. che Collowins Propotuion.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 78. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0088?run=74