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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 103

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  1. ut a
  2. IEthele Rines thusdepend on thethickness oF the plate
  3. oFCilaIs their Diametere at equal distances trom several
  4. Speculums made ot tuch concaro conrex plates oF Cilals
  5. as are ground on tlie lame Sphere, oushit to be recipro-
  6. cally in a lubduplicate proportion of the thieknestes ot
  7. the plates of CtaIS. And if this proportion befound
  8. true by experience it ill amount to a demonstration
  9. that thele Rings (like thole Formed in thin plates) do
  10. depend on thethicknels oF the Cila(s. I procured there
  11. tore another concaro conrex plate OE Cilals groundt On
  12. both Sides to the lame Sphere rith the former plate:
  13. les thickness iras 3. Parts ot an Inch; and the Diameters
  14. oF the three Arst brishe Rinss mealured betreen the
  15. brightest parts of their orbits at the distance ot 6 Feet
  16. From the Cla(S ivere 3. 45. 55. Inches. Now thethick-
  17. vess of the other Cilass beins : oF an Inch Wras to thick-
  18. nels oF this CElaIS 45 = t0 3.3 that 15 45 3T t0 1O, Or
  19. 370000000 t0 100000000 and the roots ot chele numbers
  20. arc 17607 and 10000, e in the proportion ofthe Arst.
  21. oF these ioots to the second are the Diameters ot the
  22. brishe Rings made in this Obserration by the thinner
  23. GIa(S, 3. 45. 55to the Diameters oF the lame Ringsmade
  24. in the third oCthele Obserrations by the thicker Clals
  25. 16. 25 212 That is, the Diameters ot the Rings are reci
  26. procally in a subduplicate proportion of thicknesles oE
  27. the plates oF CilalS.
  28. S0 then in plates ot GElaIS which are alike concave On.
  29. one side, and alike convex on the other side, and alike
  30. quick.silrered on the convex sides, and differ in nothine
  31. buE
  32. E

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 103. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0279?run=74