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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 109

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  1. 109
  2. This Experiment succceds al(o, a5 Phare tryed, Wrhen
  3. he Ansle b of thelover Prilm, is a lictle greater than
  4. the Ansle B oE the apper, and betrreen the interior
  5. Angles B and c, there intercedes lome (pace BC, 25 15
  6. reprelented in the Pioure, and the retractino planes
  7. BC. and DC, are neither in directum, nor parallet to
  8. one another. For there is nothins more requisite t0
  9. che success oF this Experiment, than that the rays oF aII
  10. lorts mar be unitormly mixed upon the P’aper in the
  11. place PT. IF the most retransible raus comins from
  12. thesuperior Prim takce up all thespace trom. M toP, the
  13. rars ot the Came Cort irhich come tiom the interior
  14. Prilm ouoht to begin at P, and take up all the rest ofthe
  15. SpaCOFrom thence torards N. TE the least retransible
  16. rars comine trom the superior Prisin take up the (pacC
  17. T, the rars of the sainc kind irtrich come from the
  18. Other Prilim ought tobegin at P, and take ux theremain-
  19. ins Space TN. TEone lort ot the rars rhich hare in-
  20. termediate degrees ot retransibilitr, and come trom the
  21. Cuperior Prilm De extended chroughthe (pace MIO, and
  22. nother FOrt ot those rars throuoh. the (PACC MIR, aud
  23. a thisd Cort of them through the space MS, the lame
  24. Corts oE rays comins tromthe louer Prilm, ousht to il-
  25. luminate the remainine spaces GN, RH, SN relpe
  26. etivelr. Audthe Came is to be understood of aIl the
  27. ottier Ports ofrars. Forthus therars ot every Port will
  28. Belcattered unitormly and erentr throuch the itole
  29. Epace AIHI, and (o beins everr irhere mixt in the lame
  30. proportion, they must erery wrhere produce the lame
  31. COlour. And theretore since by this mixture they pro-
  32. duce irhice in the exterior spaces M P and lH, ther
  33. must also produce irhite in thie interior space PI. Phis
  34. la

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 109. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0129?run=74