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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 128

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  1. move trom the point B, continually eill ic come tOL,
  2. the Arch OF will firs increase and then decrease, and
  3. (0 will the AnelC AZR erhich the caYS AN and CTR
  4. contain; and the Arch OF and AnOlC AX R will BC
  5. Bisoes irhen ND iS EO CN aS V II RR EO VZ RR,
  6. in erhich case NF ill bCtO ND a5 2R +oI. AIOthe
  7. Anele A YS irhich the rayS A N and IIS contain rill
  8. Trst decrease, and then increase and sior least irten
  9. ND iS EO C N aS V TI-RR EOVB RR, in wrhich cale
  10. NVF. Will bC EOND aS ZR tOL. And Cothe Anole irhich
  11. the next emersent ray (that is, the emersent ray aftei
  12. chree rellexions) contains with the incident pay AN
  13. will come to its limit Wrhen NDis to C. N aS V II. RR t0
  14. VISRR, in Wrhich case N F will bC EO ND a5 4 R t0 ,
  15. and the Ansle irhich the ray next alter that emergent,
  16. that is, the rar emersent alter tour rellexions, con
  17. tains rith the incident vill come to its limit, wrtren
  18. ND is tO C. N, AS VTTRR tOV 24 RR, in irtrich case
  19. NF will BC tO ND aS SR toI; and (0 on intinitel,
  20. thenumbers 3, 8, 15, 24, Dc. beins gathered by conti.
  21. nualaddition ofthe terms oFthe arithmetical progression
  22. 3,5,7,9,5c. Thetruth oF all this Mathematicians will
  23. Catly examinc.
  24. Norr it is to be obserred, that as wrhen the Sun comes
  25. tohis Propicks, dars increale and decreale but a very
  26. little for a great Wrhiletogether; Po wrhen by increat.no
  27. the distance C. D, these Anoles come to their limitsu
  28. ther vary their quantiey but very little For Pome time
  29. together, and theretore a tar greater number oFthe rayS
  30. irtich Fall upon all the points N in the Ouadrant
  31. BL, Mall emerse in the limits oF these AnSleS,
  32. then in auy other inclinations. And Further it 1
  33. te

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 128. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0148?run=74