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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 124

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  1. CT24
  2. Fiohe ranisted. This inlargement oF che Fringes WaS
  3. (0 great that the rays irhich 5o to the innermost Frinse
  4. Seemed to De bent abore trventy times more irten this
  5. Frinse ras reads toranittu, than wrtien onc ot the Knires
  6. ras takenarrar.
  7. And Fromthis and the Former Oblerration compared,
  8. Tsather, that the Fight oF thetirst trinse passed by the
  9. edoe ofthe Rnite at a distance greater than the eioht.
  10. hundredth part oF an luch, and the Lishe of the second
  11. Fringe Passed by the edee of the Rnite at a greater di-
  12. Cance than the Lioht ot the Arest tringe did, and that
  13. ofthe third at a greater distance than that ot the se-
  14. cond, and that oF the sreams of Light described in
  15. the titth and sixth Observations passed by the edges
  16. oF the Rnires at lels distances than that ot any oF thC
  17. Trinses.
  18. OB5. VIII
  19. lcaused the edges ot trro Knives to be pround truty
  20. Areishe, and prickins their points into a board (0 that
  21. their edoes misht look torrards one another, and meet-
  22. ino near their points contain a rectilinear Anole, I Fas.
  23. ned their handles tosether rith Pitch to make this
  24. Ansle invariable. Ihe distance oF the edges of the
  25. Knires From one another at the distance DE tour Inches
  26. From the angular point, erhere the edges of the Knires
  27. met, as theeigheh part ot an luch, and theretore the
  28. Ansle contained by the edges ras about 1 degr. 54.
  29. Lhe Knires thus Aixed together I placed in a beam of
  30. thesuns Light, let into my darkened Chamber throuotr
  31. a FIole the 42th part oF an lnch wide, at the distance
  32. O

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 124. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0300?run=74