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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 115

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  1. 1TB
  2. Phe Bradorrs et scratches made in polisted plates ol
  3. Glaso vere also much broader than they ousht to be,
  4. and the Veins in polistred plates of Ctass did also cast the
  5. like broad Badorrs. And theretore the great breadtt
  6. oF thele Cadons procceds from Pome other cause than
  7. the retraction oF tne AIT.
  8. Vet the Circle Z represent the midale ofthe TTair; Fig. 1.
  9. ADG, BETI, C FI, thrce cars passins by one side ot
  10. the Fair at sereral distances; RNC, LOR, MPS,
  11. chree ocher rays passins by the other side ot the Hlair at
  12. che like distances; D, F, F and N, O, P, the places
  13. irhere the cays are bent in their passase by thellai;
  14. C, TI, Jand C, R, S, the places irhere the cars FaII on
  15. a Paper CQ; ISthe breadth ofthe Madow ot theltair
  16. cast on the Paper, and TI, VS, trro rays passins to the
  17. Doints Iand S rithout bending irten the Fair is taken
  18. airaY. And its manifest that aII the Light betireen
  19. these tvO rayS AI and VS is bent in passins by the
  20. Flair, and turned aside From the Padom 1S, because it
  21. any part of this Liont vere noc bene it would Fall on
  22. the Paper within the Mado, and chere illuminate the
  23. Paper contrary to experience. And because irhen the
  24. Caper is at a oreat distance trom the FTair, the Madon
  25. is broad, and cheretore the rars II and VS are at a
  26. dreat diltance trom one another, it Follos that the
  27. tlair aets upon the rays oF Light at a g0od distance in
  28. cheir passins br it. But the action is Arongest on the
  29. rars rrhich pals by at least distances, and erors weaker
  30. and weaker accordingly as the rars pass by at distances
  31. sreater and greater, as is reprelented in the Scheme:
  32. For thence it comes to pals, that the Macdow of the
  33. lair is much broader in proportion eo the distance ot
  34. th

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 115. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0291?run=74