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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 95

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  1. 195
  2. 2. The Proportion of the sine ot incidence to theline
  3. et refraction ot onc and the lame fort ot rays out of onc
  4. medium into another, is composed of the Proportion ol
  5. che ine oE incidence to the sinc ot retraction out of the
  6. tiest medium into aur third medium, and ot the Pro-
  7. Portion oF the line ot incidence to the sine oF retraction
  8. out oF thac third medium intothe lecond medium.
  9. By the Ars Theorem the retractions of the rars ot
  10. every Tort made out of anx medium into Air are knon
  11. Oy havins che retraction oF the cars oF any one Cort. AS
  12. tor instance, it the refractions ot the rays ot everr lort
  13. out oF Rain-ater into Air be delired, let the common
  14. Eine oF incidence out ot Citass into Air De subducted
  15. From the fines ot refraction, and the Lxcesses will DC
  16. 7, 2753 2753 2753 272, 273, 279, 28. Suppole non
  17. chatthe Ane ot incidence of the least retrangible rars be
  18. eo their sine ot retraction out ot Rain water into AII 25
  19. threc tO Four, and Car as I the difference ot thole sines
  20. is toz the tine ot incidence, (0 is 27 the least of the
  21. Lxcelles abore. mentioned to a Fourth number 8T; and
  22. 8+ Will De the common sion ot incidence out of Rain-
  23. water into Air, tortrich line it vou add aIl theabore
  24. mentioned Fixcesses vou rill have the dehired sines ot
  25. the retractions 108, 10807. 1083, 108;, 108;, 1083,
  26. 2083, 109.
  27. By thelatter Theorem theretraction out of onc me-
  28. dium into another is sathered as otten as vou have
  29. the retractions out of them both into any third medium.
  30. AS. iF the line oF incidence of any ray out oF Cilals into
  31. Air be to its tine ot retraction a5 20 t0 3r, and the sinc
  32. ot incidence of the lame ray out of Air into Water, DC
  33. te

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 95. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0115?run=74