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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 65

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  1. (65)
  2. eren chickness, that through a Miscroscope ther have
  3. appeared ot the Came Colour at their edges and cor-
  4. ners wtere the included medium mas terminated, irhich
  5. chey appeared oF in other places. Floverer it rill add
  6. nuehto our Patisfaction, if those corpulcles conld be dis-
  7. corered rith Miscroscopes; erhich it we Mail at lenoth
  8. actain tO, I Fear it will Dc the utmost improrement ot
  9. this sense. For it scems impostible to sec the more le-
  10. eret and noble works of nature mithin the corpuleles
  11. by realon of cheir transpareney.
  12. P R O P, VITI.
  13. The cause of Reflexion is not the impinoino of L ight on
  14. the solid or impervious parts of Bodies, as is commonly be-
  15. lieved.
  16. This will appear by the follorine Considerations.
  17. First, That in the passase of Lieht out ot Crlals into
  18. Air there is a rellexion as Arons as in its pastase out ot
  19. Air into Cla(S, Or rather a little Aronger, and by many
  20. degrees sronger than in its passase out of Glass into
  21. Water. And it seems not probable that Air Mould have
  22. more refectino parts than Nater or Cla(S. But if that
  23. Tould possibly De supposed, vet it will arail nothins;
  24. For the reflexion is as srons or Aronger Wrtren the AIT1S
  25. dramnaras trom the Cilals, (suppole in the Air Dump
  26. invented by MIT. Boyle) 25 irhien it is adjacent to il.
  27. Secondir, IFLighe in its paltase out of Crlass into Air
  28. De incident more obliquelr than at an Ansle ot 40 Or
  29. 4Y degrees it is rhrolly retlected, it lels obliquely IE 15
  30. in great meature trantimitted. Nom it is not to beima
  31. Bined that Lishe at one desree ot obliquity Monta meet
  32. H
  33. WIF

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 65. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0241?run=74