Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 117

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2. lours wrtere those Planes meet rith the Diamond cut,
3. and by this means there wriil Pometimes appear FOuT OK
4. tire Fringes oF COlours. Let AB, C. D reprelenc the Fis. 2.
5. Parallel planes oF a Lookins-sla(s, and BD the planc
6. ot the Diamond cut, makcins at B a very obtuse Angle
7. withthe plane AB. And let aII the Lighe Detireen che
8. TayS F N I and FBMI pals directly chroush the parallet
9. Planes oF the CEla(S, and FaII upon the Paper betireen l
10. and M, and aII the Lishe betreen the raYS CO and
11. HID De refracted by the oblique plane of the Diamond
12. cut B D, and FaII upon the Paper betreen I and L; and
13. the Lixhe irhich passes directlr chrouch the parallet
14. planes ofthe Cla(S, and FaIIS upon the Paper Betreen
15. land MI, Wil De bordered rith three or more fringes
16. AE NI.
17. OBS. TTI.
18. When the FPair as trvelve Feet distant Fromthe
19. tTole, and its Bhado Feil obliquelr upon a Rat vrhice
20. Ccale, ot Inches and parts ot an Inch placed halE a FOOL
21. berond it, and also irhen the Chadon Feil perpendicu-
22. laxiy uxon thesame scale placed nine Feet berond it;
23. I mealured the breadth of the Madon and tringes a5
24. accurately a5 lcould, and tound them in parts oF an
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26. dud

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 117. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0293?run=74