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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 101

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  1. CTOT
  2. it the obliquities of the rays to the concare Turtace ot
  3. the Citass De luch thac cho sines oE their retraction I
  4. passins out oE the Cilass throuph chac Curtace into the
  5. AIr BC 2172, 7659, 2031, 2345, chebrishe Light ot
  6. the 3438bch Rins Mall emerse at thechicknesses oF the
  7. Ctals irtrich are to = ot an lnch 45 34386 10 34385,
  8. 34384, 34383, 34382, respectirely. And theretore it
  9. the chicknels in allFhele cales be=OF an lnch (a5 it 1S in.
  10. the Cilalo oFirtich the Speculum was made) thebrishe
  11. LiohtoF che 34385th Rins Mall emerse irhere the line
  12. OFretractionis 1172, and that oF the 34384Fl, 384383t
  13. and 34382Fh Rins wrhere the (inc 15 1659, 203.1, a1d.
  14. 2345 respectirey. And in thele Angles oF retraction
  15. che LishoF chele Rines MaIl be propasated trom the
  16. Speculumto the Chart, and there paint Rinss about the.
  17. Wrhite central round Spot oF Lighe wrhrich re laid wras
  18. the LighE oF the 34386ch Rins. And the Semidiame
  19. ters oF theleRinss Mall lubtend the Ansles ot retraction
  20. made at the concare Curtace ot the Speculum, and by
  21. consequence their Diameters MaM De to the distance ot
  22. the Chart trom the Speculum as thole sines ofretraction
  23. doubled are to the Radius chat 15 45 1172, 1659, 2031,
  24. and 2345, doubled are t0 100000. And theretore it.
  25. the distance of the Chart trom the concare surtace ot
  26. the Speculum DC sIX Feet (a5 it ras in the third ofthele
  27. Obserrations) the Diameters oF the Rings of this bright
  28. vellon Lishe uxon the Chart MaII bC 1688, 2389,
  29. 2925, 3375 Inches: For thele Diameters are to6 Feet
  30. as theaborementioned lines doubled are to the Radius.
  31. Nor chese Diameters of thebrighe vello RingS, thus
  32. tound by computation are the very lame with thole
  33. tound in che chird otthele Oblerrations by mealurins
  34. cMCM.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 101. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0277?run=74