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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 24

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  1. 24
  2. niently reckoned trom the lorrest and thiekest part ot
  3. the Bubble uprraids.
  4. OB5. ZIZ.
  5. Viewins in sereral oblique positions ot my five
  6. the Rings ot Colours emergins; on thetopot the Bubble,
  7. lFound that ther ivere sensibly dilated by increasins
  8. che obliquier, but vet not (o much by tar a5 thole
  9. made By thind Air in the seventh Observation. For
  10. there they vere dilated (o much as, wrhen vieved
  11. nost obliquelr, to arrire at a part of the plate more
  12. than trelre times thicker than that irhrere they ap-
  13. peared irtien riemed perpendiculariy; irhereas in this
  14. case the thicknels oF the Water, at irhich chey arrived
  15. irhien riered most obliquelr, Wras to that chicknels
  16. arhich exhibited them by perpendicular raYs, Come-
  17. chins leIs thanas 8 +0 5. By the best oEmy Oblervations
  18. it Wras betreen 15 and 15: to 10, au increale about
  19. 24 times less than in the other case.
  20. Sometimes the Bubble rouid become et an unitorm
  21. thicknels all over, except at the top ot it neur the black
  22. Spot, a5 I tner, because it rould exhribit the lame
  23. appearance oF Colours in iIl Politions oEthe FyC. And
  24. then the Colours irtrich ivere seen at iES appareNE CIE-
  25. cumterence by the obliquest rars, vould De different
  26. From thole that wrere seen in other places, by rays lels
  27. oblique to it. And dirers Spectators might sec the
  28. Tame part oF it oF difterins Colours, by vierins it at
  29. very differine obliquities. Nou obserring hou much
  30. the Colours at the lame places of the Bubble, or at di-
  31. vers places ot equal thichnels, vere raried by the
  32. severat

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 24. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0196?run=74