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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 70

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  3. other Bodies as much rarer as he pleales, Pothat Lieht
  4. may find a seuds pallase chroush transparene lub.
  5. Ctances.
  6. PROP. 1Z.
  7. Bodies reflect and refract Fisht hy one and the same
  8. porver variousty exercised in various circumstances.
  9. This appears by lererat Considerations. First, BC.
  10. cause irtien Lisht soes out oF Citals into AIr, a5 ob.
  11. liquetr a5 it can postibly do, il its incidence be made
  12. AiIl more oblique, it becomes totally reflected. For
  13. theporver of the Cilals atter it has retracted the Lighe
  14. as obliquely a5 is possible if the incidence be sill made
  15. more oblique, becomes to0 Arons to let any oF its rayS
  16. 50 chroush, and by consequence causes total rellexions.
  17. Sccondly, Becaule Light is alternately reflected and
  18. transmitted by chin Plates oF Cilass for many successions
  19. accordinslr, a5 the thichnels of the Plate increases
  20. in an arithmetical Progression. Forhere the thicknels
  21. ol the Clals determines irhether that porrer by which
  22. Class acts upon Lisht Mall cause it to be reRected, Or
  23. Cusser it tobe transmitted. And, Thirdly, because those
  24. Turtaces of transparent Bodies artich hare the sreates
  25. retractins pover, relect the sreatest quantiey ot Lislitus
  26. aS Was Cered in the hrst Proposition.
  27. P R OP. Z.
  28. L Laest de Pase io s bian in Vacud i lisC
  29. propertion of the Sines rehich measure the refraction of the
  30. Bodies, the forces of the Bodies to reflect and refract Lisht,
  31. ar

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 70. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0246?run=74