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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 79

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  1. appear by rellexion. And this alternate reflexion and
  2. transmistion, as Lgather by the 24th Obserration, con-
  3. tinues For abore an hundred vicissitudes, and by the
  4. the Oblerrations in the next part of this Book, Formany
  5. thoulands, beins propasated trom onc Turtace ot a Glals-
  6. plate to the other, Though the thicknels ot the plate
  7. De a quarter ot an Inch or above: 50 that this alter-
  8. nation seems tobe propasated trom every retractins
  9. lurtace to aM distances without end or limitation.
  10. Phis alternate reflexion and retraction depends on
  11. both the Curtaces ot every thin plate, becaule it de
  12. Dends on their dittance. By the 2rth Observation, It
  13. cither Curtace oF a thin plate of Muscory-CilaIS DC vet-
  14. ted, the Colours caused by the alternate retlexion
  15. and refraction grorr faint, and theretore it depends on
  16. them Both.
  17. Itis theretore performed at the second Turtace, FOr
  18. iF it avere performed at the ArHt, betore the rays ar
  19. rire ac the second, it vould noc depend on the le-
  20. cond.
  21. IE is allo insluenced by some action or dispoltion,
  22. propasated trom the tirst to the second, becaule other-
  23. rise at the second it mould not depend on the tirst. And
  24. this action or dispolition, in its propasation, intermits
  25. and returns by equal interrals, because in aIl its pro-
  26. sress it inclines the ray at one distance From the ArI
  27. lurtace to De reslected by the second, at anottier to De
  28. transmitted by it, and that by equal interrals for innu-
  29. merable ricissitudes. And because the ray is dispoled
  30. to reflexion at the distances 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, bc. and t0
  31. transinission at the distanceS O, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, dc, (For
  32. us transmission chroush che trst surtace, is at the di
  33. RANCC

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 79. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0255?run=74