Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 81
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- 81
- Wrhether this Hypothels be true or FaIsC I do not here
- consider. L content my selF writh the bare dilcorers,
- That therars of Light are by lome cause or other alter-
- hatels disposed to be ressected or retracted for many vi-
- cissitudes.
- DFFTNTTTON.
- The returns of the disposition of any ray to be reflected
- Preiu cau its Fits ot ealy rellexion, and those of
- its disposition to be transmitted its Fits oF easy trans-
- mittion, and the space it passes betreeen every re-
- turn and the next return, the Interral oF its
- FItS.
- P R O P. ZTII.
- The reason reby the surfaces of au thicte transparent
- Bodies reflect part of ibe Fioht incident on them, and
- refract the rest, is, that some rays at their incidence are
- in Fits of easy reflexion, and others in Fits of easy trans-
- mission.
- Phis may be sathered trom the 24th Observation
- Wrhere theLight reflected by thin plates oF Air and Crlals,
- irtrich to thenaked Fre appeared erenlr irhite all over
- theplate, did chrough a Prilm appear rared rith mans
- successions oF Lisht and Darkenels made by alternate Ats
- ot ealy rellexion and easy trantmission, the Prim
- severins and distinguistring the rares ot irhich the
- White reflected Light ras compoled, as as explained
- abore.
- st mm
- And
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