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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 122

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  1. narromest wrhien my Fre Was furthest fromthe direct
  2. Lient, and theretore secmed to pals berween the Light
  3. ot that fringe and the edge of the Rnite, and that
  4. irhich passed nearest the edge to be most bent, though
  5. not all oF it.
  6. OBS. VI.
  7. Y placed another Rnise by ehis (0 that Their cdges
  8. mishit be paraIlel and lo0k torrards one another, and
  9. thatthe beam oF Lignt might Fall upon boch the Rnives.
  10. and some part oF it palo betrreen their edges. And
  11. irten the distance oF their edoes as aboutthe 4OOth
  12. DaEt OF an Tuch the Aream parted in the midale, and
  13. Iett a ThadO DCTWCCM FHE ENO PATES. This Bacon
  14. as (0 black and dark thdt alt the Lioht which parsed
  15. betreen the Rnires scemed to be bent, and turned alide
  16. tothe one hand or tothe other. And as the Knires AiI
  17. approached one another the hado orew broader, and
  18. the Areams Borter at their inmard ends wrhich vere
  19. next the Cador, uneil upon the contact of the Knives
  20. the irhole Lighe vanistied learins its place to the
  21. Mracto.
  22. And hence I gather thac the Lisht wrhich is least
  23. bent, and soes to the imrard ends ot the Areams, pas-
  24. ses bY the cdoes oF the Rnires at the greatest distance,
  25. and this distance wrhen the Phador begins tO appCaF DC.
  26. treen the Rreams is about the eight- hundredth DaFE OF
  27. an Tnch. And the Light wrhich passes by che edees oF
  28. the Rnires at distances AiII lelS and lels is more and
  29. more bent, and soesto those parts OF the streams Wrhich
  30. are further and turther trom the direct Lighe, because
  31. avtrei

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 122. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0298?run=74