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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 127

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  1. Antonius de Dominis Archibistop oF Spilato, in his Bo0k
  2. De Radiis Visus Fucis, publiched by his Friend Bar-
  3. tolus at Venice, in the VCaE LBFT, and Wrritten above
  4. tiventr Pears betore. For he teaches there horr the
  5. interior Bou is made in round DropS oF Rain by tivo
  6. retractions ot the suns Light, and one reflexion be-
  7. treen them and the exterior by trro retractions and
  8. trro lorts ot rellexions betureen them in cach DroP ot
  9. Nater, and prores his Explications by sixperiments
  10. made witha Phial Full oF Water, and with Cilobes oFGla(S
  11. tilled with WVater, and placed in the sun tomakie the
  12. COlOurS OF the tmo BOS appear in theim. ThC CamC
  13. Explication Des-Cartes hach purtued in his MetCOES,
  14. and mended that ot the exterior BOW. But Wrhils they
  15. undersood not the true origin oF Colours, its necestary
  16. to pursue it here a little Further. For understandins
  17. theretore hor the Bor is made, let a DEOBOF Rain OE
  18. any other spherical transparent Body be reprelented by
  19. the Sphere BNF C, described withthe Center C, and Fis. 24.
  20. Semi-diameter C. NI. And leF AN BC onC OF the SunS
  21. rars incident upon it at N, and thence retracted to f,
  22. erhere let it cither so out ofthe Sphere by retraction to-
  23. vards V, or be resected to C; and at C let it either 50
  24. out by retraction to R, or De reflected toHI; and at II
  25. let it 50 out by retraction torrards S, cuttins the inci
  26. dent ray in Z; produce ANY and R C, till ther meet IM
  27. L, and UpON AZ and NF let FaII the perpendiculars
  28. C. D and C. F and produce C. D till it Fall uxon the cir-
  29. cuinterence at L. Parallel to the incident ray A N dca
  30. the Diameter BO, and let the sine ot incidence out ot
  31. Air into Water De to the sine ot refraction as I to
  32. R. Noi it vou suppose the point ot incidence Nta
  33. MOVE

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 127. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0147?run=74