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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 86

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  1. C86
  2. medium in Anoles of refraction equat to their Inoles of
  3. reftexion.
  4. For wrten Licht is reflected by the second lurtace ot
  5. thinplates, it soes out afterrards Freely at the Arst sur-
  6. tace to makre the Rings oF Colours wrhich appear by
  7. rellexion, and by the frcedom ofits egrels, mâkes the
  8. Colours oF these Rings more ririd and Crons thanthole
  9. irhich appear on. the other sde oF the Plates by the
  10. transmitted Light. Pherefected rassare theretore in
  11. Ats oF casy transmission at their egress; irtrich would
  12. not alirars happen, it the intervals ot the Aes within
  13. the plate alter rettexion irere not equal both in lensth
  14. andnumber totheir intervals beforeit. And this contrrms
  15. allo theproportions let donn in the former Proposition.
  16. Foritthe rars both in soins in and out at thetrst Curtace
  17. be in fits of eals transmittion, and the interrals and num-
  18. bers ot those tts betrreen the Arst and second Curtace,
  19. betore and alter reflexion, bc equal; the distances ot
  20. the Tts oF easy transmistion trom cither Curtace, must be
  21. in the lame proorection alter rellerion as betore; that
  22. 15, trom the tirst Curtace wrhich transmitted them, in
  23. theprogreltion ot the eren numbers O, 27 4, 6, 8, 1c.
  24. and from the second ihich retlected them, in that ot
  25. the odd numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, Sc. Buctheletro Pro-
  26. positions rill become much more erident by theobser
  27. vations in the follomins part of this BoOk.
  28. IHF

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 86. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0262?run=74