Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 72

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1. C721
2. throush that space Mall be in a subduplicate proportion
3. ot the Forces, a5 Mathematicians rill casily understand.
4. And cheretore if the space ot actirity ot the retractins
5. superticies oE the Body bc considered a5 Tuch a space,
6. the motion ofthe ray generated by the retractins Force
7. ot the Body, during its paltase chroush that space
8. that is the motion BR must bc in a subduplicate
9. proportion ofthat retracting force: I Cay theretore that
10. thie square oF the Line BR, and by consequence the
11. refractins Force of the Body is verr nearly as the den-
12. sey ofthe Came Bodr. For this will axpear by the Fol.
13. lorrins Pable, Wrherein the proportion ot thesinesirhich
14. meature the retraxions of several Bodies, the square
15. OF BR suppotins C. B an unite, the densities of thc
16. Bodies ettimated by their specitick gravities, and theie
17. retractire porrer in respeet ol cheir densities are set
18. domn in sereral Columns.
19. The

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 72. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0248?run=74