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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 100

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  1. 10O
  2. OEthe third Part of this B00k, it the rays be made ob.
  3. lique to the Clals, the chicknels oF the Glals requia
  4. site to transmit the lame bright Light oEthe lame Rine
  5. in any obliguitu is to this thicknels oF: oF an Inelu, 45
  6. the lecant oF an Ansle wrhose line is the tirst oF an hun-
  7. dred and Ex arichmetical means betrreen the sines ot
  8. incidence and refraction, counted trom the fine et inci.
  9. dence wrhen the retraction is made out ofanr plated B0-
  10. dy into any medium incompalsins IE, That 15, In tls Cale,
  11. OUE OF GEIA(S InEO AIT. NoW if the thickness oFthe GElaIS
  12. De increaled by degrees, (0 as to bear to its tirit thicknels.
  13. viz. That OE a quarter oF an Lnch) the PropOTtIOnS
  14. wrtrich 34386 (the number oF fts of the perpendicular
  15. FayS in Soins throush the Cilals torards thewhite SpOt
  16. in the center oE The RInGS,) hath 10 34385, 34384,
  17. 34383 and 34382 (thenumbers oF thetits otthe oblique
  18. cays in soins throueh the Glass torards the tirst, le
  19. cond, third and Fourth Rinos oF C olours,) and it the
  20. ErHt thickness be dirided into 100000000 equal Parts.
  21. the increaled thicknesses Wrill DC 100002908, 100005816,
  22. 200008725 and 100011633, and the Angles oF wrhuch thele
  23. chickneses are secants willbe 26 13, 375, 45 6 and
  24. 2 26 theRadius beins 100000000; and the sines ot
  25. these Ansles are 762, 1079, 132F and 1525, and the
  26. proportional tines oFretraction 1172, 1659, 2031 anc
  27. 2345, the Radius Deins 100000. Lor since the bnes
  28. ot incidence out oF CilaIs into AII are to the neS
  29. Ot retraction 25 Ir t0 17, and to theabore-mentioned
  30. secants. a5 TI to the Ars OF 10b arithmetica) means
  31. betreen TY and 17, that 15 45 LL FO 1I 166 thole se
  32. cants vill De to the sines ot retraction a5 11586 10. 17
  33. and by chis Analogy ill sire chele sines. S0 chen

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 100. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0276?run=74