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. 125

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: 0.90.

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

The machine reads it as

  1. 125
  2. oF ten or stteen Feet trom the HTole, and let che Listit
  3. irhich passed betreen cheir edees Fall very obliquely
  4. uxon a (nooth white Ruler at the distance ot halF au
  5. Inch, or an Inch From the Rnires, and there law the
  6. tringes made by the tiro edses of the Rnires run alone
  7. the edoes of the Mados oF the Knires in lines parallel
  8. to thole edges without gromins sensibly bronder, till
  9. chey met in Ansles equaltothe Ansle contained by the
  10. edges ofthe UEnires, and irhere ther met and jorned
  11. ther ended wichout crossins one another. Buc it the
  12. Ruler was held at a much sreater distance from the
  13. Paper, thetringes became Lomethins bronder and broader
  14. as ther approached one another, and alter ther net
  15. thes eroned one another, and then became much broader
  16. than betore.
  17. Whence I sather that the distances ac irtrich tho
  18. Tringes pass by the Rnires are not increaled nor altered
  19. by the approuch ofthe Rnires, but the Angles in irtricti
  20. the raysare there bent are much increaled by that ap
  21. proach; and that the Knite erhich is nearest any cay
  22. determines irhich was the ras MaIl De bent, and the
  23. Other Rnite increales the bent.
  24. adi LLL
  25. When the rays fell very obliquels upon the RuIeT aC
  26. thedittance of the third part of an lnch trom the Knires;
  27. the dark line betureen the fust and second Fringe oF thC
  28. Thadoir oF one Unite, and the dark line betireen the
  29. tirst and second tringe ot the Madow of the other Rnite
  30. met rith onc another, at the distance oE the Atth part
  31. OE an Inch trom the end oE the Lishe wrhich passed be-
  32. treei

Cite

Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 125. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0301?run=74