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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 25

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  1. B)
  2. sereral obliquities ot the rays; by the asistance oF the
  3. Ath, 24th, Ibth and 18th Obserrations, a5 they aic
  4. hereaster explained, I collect the thickness of the Water
  5. requisite to extibit any one and the lame Colour, at le-
  6. veral obliquities, to De very nearly in Fhe PrOPOrtION
  7. expresed in this Table.
  8. Incidence on) Refraction in- (Thictness of
  9. the Water. 10theWrater. The W ater.
  10. des. min. des. min.
  11. 00 00 00 00
  12. 15 00
  13. II
  14. 30 00 23
  15. 45 O0
  16. 22
  17. 60 00 40
  18. 75 00 46
  19. 90 001 48
  20. 2
  21. C
  22. 10
  23. In the trro Arst Columns are expressed the obliqui-
  24. ties ot the rays to the luperticies oF the Water, that
  25. 15, their Ansles ot incidence and retraction. Where
  26. lsuppole thac the Sines irhich mealure them are in
  27. round numbers 25 3 t0 4, thoushi probably the disso.
  28. lution oF Soap in ehe Water, may a lictle alter its
  29. refractire Vertue. In the third Column the thicknels
  30. oF the Bubble, at Wrhrich any one Colour is exhibited
  31. in those sereral obliquities, is exprest in parts, of irhieta
  32. ten conltiture that thickenels irhren che raYS are perpen-
  33. diculat.
  34. Thare Pometimes observed, thac the Colours wtrict
  35. arise on polisted Sceel by heatins it, or on Bell. metal,
  36. and some other metalline substances, when melted and
  37. C
  38. pourect

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 25. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0197?run=74