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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 84

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  1. (84
  2. PR O P. ZVII.
  3. TFrays of any one sort pass perpendicularius into severat
  4. mediums, the intervals of the fits of easy reflexion and
  5. transmission in any one medium, is to those intervals in
  6. any other as the sine of incidence to the sine of refraction,
  7. rehen the rays pass out of the first of those truo mediums
  8. into the second.
  9. This is manifest by the roth Obserration.
  10. eROP. XVIII.
  11. TF the rays rehich paint the Colour in the confine of
  12. vellore and oranse pass perpendicularlys out of any medium
  13. into dir, the intervals of tbeir fits of easys reftexion are
  14. the sth part of an Tuch. And of the same leneth are
  15. the intervals of their fits of easy transmission.
  16. This is manifest by the bth Obserration.
  17. From these Propolitions it is eal to collect the in-
  18. tervals ot the AIS et easy rellexion and casy transinis-
  19. ton ot any sort ot rays retracted in any Anole into
  20. any medium, and thence to kno, Wrhether the rays
  21. Mail De reflected or transmitted at their sublequent
  22. incidence uxon any other pellucid medium. Which
  23. thins beinq usetul for understanding, the next part ot
  24. this Book iras here tobe set dorn. And For the lame
  25. realon L add the trro Collorrins Propolitions.
  26. eLLet.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 84. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0260?run=74