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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 80

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  1. BC
  2. Rance 0, and it is transmitted throuoh both tose-
  3. ther, il their distance be intinitely licele or much lels
  4. than L) the disposition to be transmitted at the distances
  5. 274, 6, 8, 10, Oc. 15to De accounted à recurn of the
  6. Came disposition which the rar Arst had at the distance o,
  7. that is at its transmission chroush the trst retractins (ur-
  8. Face. AII erhich is the thins lould prove.
  9. Whatkind et action or dilpontion tnis is Whether
  10. it consist in a circulatins or a vibratins motion of the
  11. rar, or of the medium, or Comethins else: I do not
  12. here enquire. Thole that are averse trom assentins to
  13. auy nerr discoreries, but such as ther can explain by an
  14. lypothelis, may for theprelent suppole, that as Stones
  15. by fallins upon Water put the Water into an undula-
  16. tins motion, and all Bodies by percustion excite ribra-
  17. tions in the AI; (0 the rays oF Lishit, by impinsins on
  18. auy retractins or reflectins surtace, excite ribrations in
  19. the retractins or reflectins medium or substance, and
  20. by excitins them agitate the solid parts of the retractine
  21. Or reflectins Body, and by agitatins them cause theBody
  22. to siorr arm or hoc; that the vibrations thus excited
  23. use propasated in the retractins or reflectins medium
  24. or substance, much after the manner that ribrations are
  25. propagated in the Air tor causins Cound, and more
  26. taster than the rays (0 as to overtake them; and that
  27. irtien any ray 15 in that part ofthe ribration wrhich con-
  28. ipires rith its motion, it casils breakes through a re-
  29. tractins Curtace, but irhen it is in the contraer part ot
  30. che vibration erhich impedes its motion, it is casily
  31. refsected; and, by consequence, that every rar is suc-
  32. celsirely disposed to be ealily reflected, or casily tranl-
  33. mitted, by every ribration which overtakes it. But
  34. Wrhether

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 80. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0256?run=74