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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 78

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  1. C
  2. cothe polition and distance oF the Farth From the SuM.
  3. The mean motions ot Fupiters Satellites is allo tritter
  4. in his descent From his Aphelium to his Perihelium,
  5. than in his accent in the ocher halt oFhis Orb: But this
  6. inequalitr has no respect to the position of the Farth,
  7. and in the three interior Satellites is insensible, as I And
  8. by computation trom the Theory oCtheir sravier.
  9. ERO P. XII.
  10. Lvery ray of Lieht in ils passare throush any refra-
  11. ctine surface i5 put into a certam transient constitution
  12. or state, rehich in the prooress of the ray returns at
  13. equat intervals, and disposes the ray at every return
  14. 1o be casily transmitted throuoh the next refractine sur-
  15. face, and betreeen the returns to be easily reflected by
  16. it:
  17. This is manifest by the gth, oth, 12th and PGtM OB.
  18. Terrations. For Dy thole Oblerrations it appears, that
  19. one and the Pame Port ot rars at equal Angles ot inci-
  20. dence on ary thin transparent plate, is alternatelr reAe-
  21. Ated and transimitted For manz succections accordinely.
  22. a5 the chickness oF the plate increases in arithmetical
  23. prosreltion oF the numDers O, 1, 2, 3, 49 5, 6,7, 8,dc.
  24. To that if the Arst resexion (that vrhich makes the AeA
  25. or innermost ot the Rings oF Colours there described)
  26. Demade atthe thickness L, the cars Pall be transmitted at
  27. the thickneses 0, 27 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 8c. and thereby
  28. make the central Spot and Rings oF Light, irhich ap-
  29. pear by transmission, and be reflected at the thicknels
  30. 2375, 7, 9, TI, 15c. and thereby make the Rings irhich
  31. appCaI

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 78. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0254?run=74