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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 97

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  1. tranmitted From the Speculum to the ChaxE FOr many
  2. luccessions, accordins to the rarious obliguities of its
  3. emergence. And irhen the Colour cast on the Specu-
  4. lum br the Priim ras varied, the Rings became ot
  5. theColour cast on it, and raried their bigness vrith their
  6. Lolour, and theretore the Lighe ras now alternatelv
  7. transmitted and not transmitted from the Speculum to
  8. the Lensat octier obliguities than betore. It scemed to
  9. me theretore that these Rings vere oF one aud the lame
  10. orisinal rith those of thin plates, but yet rith this
  11. difference that those ot thin plates are made by the al-
  12. cernate reflexions and transimistions ot the rars at thC
  13. Second surface ot the plate alter one passase throuoh it:
  14. But here the rays go trrice throuoh the plate betore
  15. ther are alternately reflected and transmitted; Ars,
  16. ther so throuoh it From the Ars Curtace to the Onick-
  17. Eilver, and then return throueh it From the Ouick- silver
  18. to the Arst Purtace, aud there are cither transmitted to
  19. the ChaTE Or refected back to the Ouick-Silver, ac
  20. cordinslr a5 ther are in their AtS oF ealie retlexion or
  21. transnission when ther arrire at that surtace. For the
  22. interrals oF the Res oF the rars irhich FaII perpendicu-
  23. larly on the Speculum, and are reflected back in the
  24. same perpendicular Lines, by reason ot the equality ot
  25. chese Angles and Linesare of the same lensth and num-
  26. ber within the Glals atter refexion as betore by the
  27. T9th Proposition oF the third Part oF this B0OK. And
  28. theretore lince aII the rays that enter throush the Ars
  29. Turtace arc in their AES ot car transmision at their en-
  30. trance, and as many ot these as are reffected by the le
  31. cond are in their AEs oF casy reRlexion there, aII these
  32. nust beagain in their fits or ealy transmission at their
  33. TCTUTI

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 97. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0273?run=74