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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 77

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  1. the Colours oF natural Bodies than the several sizes anc
  2. densities oF their transparent particles. But Wwhence it
  3. 15 that thele plates, fibres and particles do, accordins
  4. to their sereral thicknesses and densities, ressect severul
  5. lorts oFraYS, Jhare not yet explained. Lo sire lome
  6. intioht into this matter, and make may for understan-
  7. dins the next Part oF this Bo0k, I Mall conclude this
  8. Part with a ter more Propositions. Those irhich pre-
  9. ceded respeet the nature of Bodies, thele the nature ot
  10. Lishe: For both must be understood betore the reason
  11. ot their actions upon one another can be KnOWM. And
  12. Decaule the last Propolition depended upon the velo-
  13. citu oF Light, L will besin rith a Proposition of that
  14. Kind.
  15. PR OP. ZI.
  16. Lieht is propacated from luminous Bodies in time, and
  17. spends about seven or eioht minutes of an hour in passine
  18. From the Sun to the P artb.
  19. Thiswas oblerred tirst by Romer, and then by others,
  20. by means of the Eclipses ot the Satellites ot Fupiter.
  21. tior these Fclipses, Wrhen the Farth is betreen theSun
  22. and fupiter, happen about seven or eisht minutes fooner
  23. chanther ousht to do bythe Pables, and Wrhen thekarth.
  24. is berond the Sun ther happen about seren or eightmI-
  25. nutes later than they ousheto do; the realonbeins, TMaL
  26. the Light of thesatellites has Farther to g0 in the latter
  27. case than in the Former by the Diameter of the LarthS
  28. Orbit. Some inequalities ot time mar arile trom the
  29. excentricities oF the Orbs ofthe Satellites; but thole
  30. CanNOE anliver in alI che Satellites, and aC all FIMeS
  31. 10

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 77. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0253?run=74