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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 92

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.87.

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  20. toGM, and conceire (Z, n Z, Z, nZ, ck, Y2, aZ,
  21. M Z, tobe in proportion to one another, a5 the num
  22. DerS 19 57 89. 9 5 33 103 23 and (0 to reprelent the
  23. Chords oF the Ker, and oE a Pone, a third MinOr, 2
  24. tourth, a fitth, a lixth Major, a serenth, and an eighttr.
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 92. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0112?run=74