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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 105

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The machine reads it as

  1. F
  2. BD. L2.
  3. When the beam oF the SunsLisht was resected back
  4. trom the Speculum not directir to the Hole in theWin-
  5. dorr, but to a place a little dictant trom it, the common
  6. CentEF OFthat SpOL, and oF aII the Rings oF C OlOurS FeII
  7. in the middle rar betreen the beam ot the incident
  8. Lishe, and the beam of the reRtected Lighe, and by
  9. consequence in the center of the spherical concarity ot
  10. ehe Speculum, Wrhenerer the Chart on wrhich the RinOS
  11. OF Colours Fell ras placed at that center. And as the
  12. beam oE rellected Light by inclinins the Speculum re-
  13. Ceded more and more trom the beam ot incident Lisht
  14. and trom the common center ot the coloured Rines be-
  15. tircen them, thole Rines greir bigger and bigger, and
  16. 10 also did the irhite round Spot, and ner RingsOFCO-
  17. lours emerged successirelr out ot their common center,
  18. and the rhite Spot became a Wrhite Rins encompalIns
  19. them; and the incident and reflected beams ot Light
  20. alirars Feil upon the opposite parts otthis Rins, illumi-
  21. natins its perimeter like tro moek Suns in the oppolite
  22. Darts oF an Tris. S0 then the Diameter oF this RII8,
  23. meatured From the midale ot its Lioht on one side to
  24. the midele oF its Lixlit on the other side, ras alvays
  25. equal to the distance betreen the midale ot the incident
  26. beam ot Light, and the midale of the reftected beam
  27. measured at the Chart on irhich the Rinos appeared:
  28. And the rays wrhich Formed this Ring vere rellected by
  29. che Speculum in Angles equal to their Angles oF InCI
  30. dence, and by conlequence to their Angles oF retraction
  31. de cheir entrance into the Clals, but y et their Ansles ot
  32. reHexion

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 105. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0281?run=74