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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 99

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  1. (99
  2. These Peem tO bC THC ReAIONS OF these RingS in gC
  3. neral, and this put me upon obserrine the thicknels oF
  4. the Glass, and considerins wrhether the dimentions and
  5. proportions ot the Rines may be truly derived From il
  6. by computation.
  7. OBS. VIIB
  8. I mealured theretore the thicknels oF this concaro-
  9. conrex plate oF Gla(s, and found it every- Wwhere i oF an
  10. Inch precisetr. Noi, by the bch Obserration oF the
  11. first Part OC this BOOK, a thin plate OF Air tran(mitS the
  12. briohtest LisHEOF the ArA Rine, chat is the brighe vel.
  13. lo, Wrhen its chickness is the epo tM Paxt OF an TnCH,
  14. and by the roth Obserration ot the lame part, a thin
  15. plate oFClalo transmits the lame Lighe oF the same Rins
  16. iohen its thickness is less in proportion oF the sine ot
  17. retraction to the sine of incidence, that is, When its
  18. chicknels iS che tM OF in tM Part OF an LncH, suP-
  19. Potins the sines are aS TY tO F7. And if this chicknels
  20. De doubled it transmits the lame bright LighE oF the
  21. Second Ring, it cripled it transinies that ot the chird,
  22. and (0 on, the briohe vellon Light in all thele cales be-
  23. ino in itS ftS oFtransmission. And theretore if its thick-
  24. ness be multiplied 34386 times (0 as tobecome: oF an
  25. Inch ic transmits che lame brighe LioHt oFthe 34386FH
  26. Ring. Suppose this be the bright vellon Lighe trans-
  27. mitted perpendicularty from the reflectins conrex sde
  28. OF the Gilais through the concare side tothe Wrhite Spot
  29. in the center oF the RingS OFColOurS On theChaRE: And
  30. by a rule inthe seventh Obserration in the ArH PaPF OF
  31. he srA BOOK, and by the 25th and 20th PropOsitiOnS
  32. 0

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 99. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0275?run=74