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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 114

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  1. Bd. l.
  2. I made in a piece of L ead a (maH Hole with a Pin,
  3. arhole bresdth iras the +2th part oE an Inch. FOF 21
  4. oE those Pins laid cosether took up the breadtm oF halt
  5. an Tuch. Through this Hole I let into iny darkened
  6. Chamber a beam ot the Suns. Lisht, and Found that the
  7. Mados offTairs, Phred, Pins, Stras, and Cuch like Plen-
  8. der Tubstances placed inthisbeam ofLisht, ere consider-
  9. ably broader than ther ouolttobe, il the rarsot Liohe
  10. passed on by thele Bodies in right Lines. And particu-
  11. larls a Tlair ot a Mans Hlead, Wrhole breadth iras but
  12. the28oth part ot an Inch, beins held in this Liolit, ae
  13. the distance oF about telre Feet Erom theHtole, did
  14. cast a Phadorr irtrich at the distance oF Four Tuches Fiom
  15. the Flair was the sixtieth part ot an Tuch brond, thatis,
  16. abore tour times bronder than theHlair, and at the di-
  17. Cance oFtrro Feet From the Flair ras about the eiglt
  18. and trventieth part ot an Inch brond, thatis, tentimes
  19. broader than ihe Hair, and at the distance OFten FCCE
  20. rasthe ciohth part of an lnch broad, that is 35 times
  21. broader.
  22. Nor is it material whether the llair be incompassed
  23. rith Air, or rith any ottier pellucid substance. For I
  24. retted a polistred plate ot Glals, and laid the Fair in
  25. the Water upon the Cilals, and then lazins another po-
  26. listred plate oF Cilals upon it, (0 that the Water mioht
  27. AIl ux the space betreen the Cilases, I held them in
  28. the atorelaid beam oF LishE, (0 that the LighemighE
  29. Pass throush them perpendiculartr, and the adom
  30. oFthe Llair ras at the lame distances as big as betore.
  31. ThC

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 114. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0290?run=74