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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 93

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  1. rars havins one common fine of incidence, and chere.
  2. Fore since the common tine ot incidence ot the most and
  3. least retransible rars out oF CilaIs into Air WaS, (By à
  4. method deleribed abore) Found in proportion to their
  5. sines oF retraction, a5 50 t077 and 78, divide the dif-
  6. ference Detreen the fines ot refraction 77 and 78, 25 the
  7. line CM is dirided by those interrals, rou will have
  8. 7
  9. 733 7723 7733 773, 78, the tines ol
  10. retraction ot thole rars out ot Clals into Rir, their
  11. common sine of incidence beins 50. S0 then the lines
  12. OE the incidences oF all the red makins rays out ot
  13. Cilals into Rir, vere to the lines oF their retractions,
  14. not greater than 50 10 77, nor le(s than50 +0775, but
  15. raried trom one anocher accordins to all interme-
  16. diate PFOPOTtIONS. And the sines oF the incidences
  17. ot the sicenmakins rays vere to. the sines ot
  18. their retractions in all proportions From that ol 50
  19. 1077, Unto that of 50+0 77:. And by the like limits
  20. abore mentioned ivere the retractions of. the ravs De.
  21. longins tothe rest ot the Colours detined, the lines ot
  22. the red-makcins rays extendino From 77 t0775, thole
  23. ofthe oranse- makcins From 775t0 77, thoseofthe vel-
  24. lor malcins From 77: 10773, thole ofthe green makins
  25. Erom 77: t077= thole otthe blue makins From 77 = t0
  26. 75, those oF the indico-makins From 773 t0 775, anc
  27. thole oFthe violet From 773 1078.
  28. Phese are the Laws ot the refractions made out ot
  29. Colals into Rir, and thence by the three AXioms ot the
  30. tirst Boole the l’aws oF the retractions made out of Air
  31. into Cilals are catily derived.
  32. a X L L. HL.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 93. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0113?run=74