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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 88

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  1. OB. S. L.
  2. The Sun inins into my darkened Chamber chrouon
  3. a TIOlC: Ot an Tuch vide, I let the intromitted beam
  4. oF Light Fall perpendicularir uxon a Citals Speculum
  5. oround concare on one lide and convex on the other,
  6. toa Sphere ot Are Feet and eleren Tnches Radius, and
  7. quicke- silrered orer on the conrex lide. And holdine
  8. a Wrtrite opakce Chart, or a Juire of Paper at the Center
  9. ot the Spheres toirhichthe Speculum ras ground, that
  10. isqe at the distance ot about tive Feet and eleren Inches
  11. from the Speculum, in such manner, that the beam ot
  12. Lieht might pass throuch a little FTole made in the
  13. middle oF the Chart to the Speculum, and thence be
  14. reflected back to the lame HIole: I observed uxon the
  15. Chart foux or fire concentric Trises or Rings oF Colours,
  16. like Rain-Bows, encompassine the HIole much atter the
  17. manner that those, irhich in the Fourth and tollowins
  18. Obserrations ofthe tirst part of thisthird Book appeared
  19. Detireen theObject. Cilalles, encompased the black SpOt,
  20. buc vet larser and fainter than those. Thele Rings a5
  21. ther srer larser and larser became diluter and Faintei,
  22. 10 that the tifth iras scarce vitible. Vet lometimes,
  23. irhien the Sun Mhone very clear, there appeared faint
  24. Lincaments ot a sixth and seventh. IF the distance ot
  25. theChart trom the Speculum as much greater or muctu
  26. lels than that oF six Fcet, the Rinss became dilute and
  27. vanismed. And il the distance ot the Speculum From
  28. the Windon as much sreater than that oF six Feet,
  29. the rertected beam or Light rould De lo brond at the
  30. distance oF six Feet trom the Speculum erhere the Rings
  31. appeared,

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 88. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0264?run=74