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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 123

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  2. Wrhen the Rnires approach one another cHII they touch,
  3. those parts oF the streams ranistr last Wrhich are Furthest
  4. tromthe direct Light.
  5. OBS. VTI.
  6. In che Atch Obserration the Fringes did not appear,
  7. out by reaon of the breadth of the Hole inthe Win-
  8. dour became (o broad as to run into one another, and
  9. or jornins make one continued Light in the beginnine
  10. OF the ArCAMIS. But in the EXth, a5 the Rnires ap-
  11. Proached one another, a little betore the Chadon ap.
  12. Veared betreen the trro Areams, thetringes began to
  13. appear on the inner ends ot the Areams on either lide
  14. oF the direct Liohe, threc on one side made by theedse
  15. oF one Rnite, and three on the other side made by the
  16. edse ot the other Knite. Lher ere distinctest irhen
  17. the Rnires ivere placed at the greatest distance from the
  18. LTole inthe Windou, and AiIl became more distinct by
  19. makins the Hole lels, insomuch that P could Pometimes
  20. sec a faint lineament ot a Fourth frinse berond thethree
  21. abore mentioned. And as the Rnires continually ap.
  22. proached one another, the tringes srerr distincter and
  23. larger until ther vanistred. The outmost tringe va-
  24. nithred trst, and the midalemole next, and the inner
  25. most lact. And alter they vere all vanittred, and the
  26. linc oF Lieht irtrich as in the midale betireen them
  27. rassromn vers brond, entarsins it selt on both sides
  28. intothe Areams oF Light described in the Ritth ObseF
  29. vation, the aborementioned ado Besan to appear
  30. in the midele ot this line, and diride it alons themidale
  31. into trro lines ot Lighe, and increaled until the wrhole
  32. RF
  33. Liglt

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 123. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0299?run=74