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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 8

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  1. determinins some others o the Follovins Obserra.
  2. LIOIS.
  3. OBS. V1
  4. Phe Diameter oF the Exth Rins at the most lucid
  5. Part oF its Orbit ras 5 parts ot an luch, and the Dia-
  6. meter ot the Sphere on which the double conrex Ob.
  7. ject.Clals mas sround ras about 102 Feet, and hence
  8. lgathered the thickness of the Air or Aereal Interval
  9. ot the Glasses at that Ring. But lome time alter, suI-
  10. pectins that in makins this Obserration I had not de-
  11. termined the Diameter of the Sphere writh sufficient ac-
  12. curatenels, and beins uncertain rhether che Plano-
  13. conrex Cilass iras truls plain, and not Comethins con-
  14. care or conrex on that side irhich l’accounted plain;
  15. and irhether Lhad not pressed the Gilasses together, 25
  16. Potten did, to make them touch. (For by prestins luch
  17. Classes together their parts catily vield inmards, and
  18. the Rings thereby become sensibly broader than they
  19. vouldbe, did the Cilasses kecp their Figures.) I re-
  20. Peated the Lxperiment, and tound the Diameter ot
  21. the lixtl lucid Rins about;es parts ot an Iuch. Iic-
  22. Peated the Experiment allo rith such an Object- (ila(5
  23. OF another Telelcope as Phad at hand. Pnis rras a double
  24. conrex sround on both sides to onc and che lame
  25. Sphere, and its Locus ras distant trom it 83: Tuches.
  26. And thence, il the sines ot incidence and retraction ot
  27. the bright vellorr Lisht be altumed in proportion 25
  28. 1I to 17, the Diamerer ot the Sphere to erhich the
  29. Class as figured rill by computation be Found 182 In-
  30. ches. This Cilass L laid upon a Aat one, (o that the
  31. black

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 8. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0180?run=74