Leibniz Legible

Machine transcription of the Leibniz Nachlass

Search the Nachlass

Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 112

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.91.

Original at the GWLB · Page image · Annotations (IIIF) · Download text

The machine reads it as

  1. CTT2
  2. interral of the Erst and second Fringe as three to tro,
  3. and to the like dark interval betreen the second and
  4. third a5 two to onc. For the breadths oF the fringes
  5. Ceemed to be in the progression of the numBerS L, V 3
  6. and their interrals to be in the lame progression
  7. vrith them; that i5, the fringes and cheir interrals to-
  8. gether to be in the continual progrestion ot the numbers
  9. a, VE Or thereabouts. And thele pro-
  10. portions held the Pame verr neartu at ait distances trom
  11. ehc Hair; the dark Interrals ot the fringes beins a5
  12. broad in proportion to the fringes at their tirst appea-
  13. rance a5 alterwards at great distances trom the llair,
  14. chouoh not (o dark and distinct.
  15. OBS. V
  16. The Sun ining into my darkened Chamber throustr
  17. a TTole a quarter ot an Inch broad; I placed at the di-
  18. Aance oF trro or threc Fcet From the Hole a Steet ot
  19. Past. Board vrhichrras black d all over on both sdes,
  20. aud in the middle ot it had a FTole about three quarters
  21. oF an Inch square For the Light to pals throush. And
  22. Behind the FIole I Fastened to the Past- Board vrith Pitch
  23. the blade oF a Carp Rnite, to intercept lome part ot
  24. theLishe vrhich passed throush the Hole. The planes
  25. OF the Past. Board and blade of the Rnite rvere parallet
  26. eo one another, and perpendicular to the rayS. And
  27. vrhenther rrere lo placed that none ot the Suns Lighe
  28. Fell on the Past-Board, but all oF it passed through the
  29. Holetothe Ruite, and there part oF it fell upon the
  30. blade ot the Rnite, and part ot it Pased by its cdgC:
  31. let this pare ot the Lishr vrhich Passed by, FaIL On a
  32. votte

Cite

Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 112. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0296?run=74