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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 83

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  1. 3
  2. irtrich compared together crince and ratity both this
  3. and the lact Propolition.
  4. P RO P. XV.
  5. In any one and the same sort of rays emersins in ans
  6. Anele out of any refractine surface into one and the same
  7. medium, the interval of the folloreins fits of easy reflexion
  8. and transmission are either accurately or very nearly, as
  9. the Rectanele of the secant of the Anole of refraction, and
  10. et the secant of another anole, rehose sine is the first of
  11. L0b arithmetical mean proportionals, betreeen the sines
  12. of incidence and refraction counted from the sine of re-
  13. fraction.
  14. This is manifest by the 7th Obserration.
  15. P RO P. XVI
  16. In several forts ofrays emeroine in equal neles out
  17. ef any refractins surface into the same medium, the inter-
  18. vals of the follorvine fits of easy reflexion and easy trans
  19. mission are either accurately, or very nearlys, as the Cube-
  20. roots of the Squares of the lenoths of a Chord, rehich sound
  21. the notes in an Pisht, Col, la, Fa, Col, la, min Fa, Coly reit h
  22. al their intermediate derrees ansaverins to the Colours os
  23. those rays, accordins to the Analogy described in the se
  24. venth Fxperiment of the second B0ok.
  25. Chis is manifest by the 13th and r4th Obserrations.
  26. MII 2
  27. dac

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 83. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0259?run=74