Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 2
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- 2
- Obterrations, and then considered and made use ot
- Them. The Obserrations are thele.
- OB5.
- Compressins Erro Prisins hard tosether CtaE Cheir
- Sides (Wrhich by chance vere a very little conrez) mighe
- Tormerhere touch oie another: L Found the place iI
- ertrich ther touched to become ablolutely transparent,
- asit ther had there been one continued piece ot CTla(S.
- For erhen the Lioht Fell (o obliquelz on the Air, wrtict
- in other places ras betreen them,asto be all reflected;
- it seemed in that place ot contact to be wholly trans-
- mitted, infomuch thatirhien looked uxon, it appearea
- like a black or dark Spot, by reason that little Or no
- sensible Lisht ras reflected trom thence, as From otter
- places; and Wrhen looked through it seemed (as it Wrerc)
- ahole in that Air irhich was formed into a thin Plate,
- by beins compresed betureen the Cilasses. And throuon
- this hole Objects thativere berond mioht De seen di-
- Cinctlr, Wrhich could noc at aIl be seen through other
- Parts oF the Cilalles irhere the Air as interjacent. AI-
- though theCilasses ivere a little convex, vet this trans-
- parent Spot was ota considerable breadtn, which breadth
- eemed principally to procced trom the vielding inmards
- ot the parts ot the Citalses, by reason ot their rutual
- pressure. For by prellins them very hard together it
- rould become much broader than othermile.
- S.
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 2. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0174?run=74