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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 129

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  1. L129
  2. tobe observed, thatthe rars irhich ditter in retransi.
  3. bilies rilthare different limits oftheir Ansles oE emer-
  4. sence, and by consequence accordins to their different
  5. degrees oFretransibilitr emerse most copiously in dif-
  6. terent Angles, and beins separated from one another
  7. appeas each in their proper C Olours. And wrhat thole
  8. Ansles are may be easils sathered trom the FOregOInO
  9. Lheorem by computation.
  10. For in the least retransible raysthe sines Land R (a5
  11. ras found abore) are 108 and 8r, and thence by
  12. computation the grentest Anole AZR ili be tound
  13. 42 desrees and 2 minutes, and the leal Ansle AYS,
  14. 50 degr. and 57 minutes. And in the most retransible
  15. rays the sines I and R arc 109 and BT, and thence by
  16. computation the greatest Ansle AZ R vill bC Found
  17. Odeorees and 17 minutes, and the Least Ansle AYS
  18. 54 desrees and7 minutes.
  19. Suppolenon that isthe Spectator SFre, and OP a line Fig. 15.
  20. drarn parallel to the Suns rars, and let POF, POF,
  21. eOC, POE, be Ansles oF 40 desr. 27 min. 42 degr.
  22. 2 mIn. 50degr. 57 min. and 54 desr. 7 min. relpectirels,
  23. aud chese Ansles turned about their common side Ol,
  24. Mail rith their otlier sides OF, OF; OCi, OHI de-
  25. deleribe the veroes of tro Rain- bOWS AFBF and
  26. CHIDC. For iF H, F, G, II, bc DropS placed any
  27. arhere in the conical superticies described by OF, Ol,
  28. OG, OTI, and be illuminated by the SunS raYS SF
  29. SF, SG, SHI; the AnslC SFO beins equal to the
  30. Ansle POF or 40 degr. 17 min. CalI DC che sreatest
  31. Anele in wrhich themost retransible rays can atter Onc
  32. cellexion De retracted to the fiy e, aud cheretore all che
  33. Drops in che line O F. Mall send che most retransible
  34. 1+γ4

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 129. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0149?run=74