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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 142

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  2. reduced into Paralleliim and diverse nO MOrC. FOr
  3. chenthole rars rill recompole a Beam ot irhice Light
  4. XV. IF the refractins Anele ot cither Prisin De the
  5. bigoer, that Prilm must be lo much the nearer to the
  6. LenS. Tou Wil knom irhen the Prisins and the L enS
  7. are Well set together by oblerrins it the Beam ot Light
  8. Z Pirhrich comes out of the second Prism De pertectiy
  9. erhite tothe verr edges oF the Light, and at aII distan
  10. ces trom the Prilm continue perfectlu and totallr mhite
  11. like a Beam of the SunsLient. For till this happens,
  12. the position of the Prisims and Lens to onc anothei nust
  13. De corrected, and then if by the help ot a lons Beam ot
  14. Nood, as is reprelented in the Figure, or by a Tube,
  15. Or lome other tuch instrument made For that purpole,
  16. ther be made Fast in that situation, you may tey aIl the
  17. lame Lxperiments in this compounded Beam oF Light
  18. XV, irtich in the Foresoins Lixperiments hrare been
  19. imade in the Suns direet Lisht. Lior thus compounded
  20. Beam oF L iohEhasthe Pamme appearance, and is endoved
  21. rith aIl the same Properties rith a direet Beam OF the
  22. SunsLiohe, PoFaras my Obserration reaches. And in
  23. errins Experiments in this Beam you may by Roppins
  24. any OEthC COlOUES P, 9, r, Sand L, at the lens, sec hon
  25. the Colours produced in the Lixperiments are no ether
  26. chan those rrhich ehe rars had at the P ens before thev
  27. entered the compolition ot this Beam: And by conte.
  28. quence chat they arise not From any neur moditications
  29. OEthe Lighe by retractions and reflexions, but Fromthe
  30. various leparations and mixtures ot the cays originally
  31. endored rith their colour-makins qualities.
  32. S0, For instance, havine with a Lens 4 Inches broad,
  33. and to Prilms on cicher Hland 6 Feet distant From the
  34. P. enS, made such a Beam ot compounded Light: to
  35. eXaIIM

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 142. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0162?run=74