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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 127

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The machine reads it as

  1. Rance Betireen their edges iras as in the follorvine
  2. Pable, irtren the distance oEthe Paper tromthe Knires
  3. WaS alus IBLIOWS.
  4. Dist
  5. ces of the Paper (Dist
  6. the
  7. che
  8. nives
  9. ances betveen th
  10. the Rnir
  11. et parts os
  12. dees
  13. ille
  14. b.
  15. 001
  16. O020.
  17. O034.
  18. 008).
  19. 0081.
  20. 008
  21. And hence Tgather that the Light erhich makes the
  22. Fringes upon the Paper is not the lame Lisht ac aIl di-
  23. Sances of the Paper From theRnires, but irhenthe la-
  24. per is held near the Rnires, the tringes are made by
  25. Light wrhich passes by the edges ot the Knires at a lels
  26. distance, and is more bent than wrhen the P’aper is held
  27. at a greater distance from the Rnires.
  28. OB5. Z.
  29. When the Fringes ot the Madors of the Knires fell
  30. Derpendicularly upon a Paper at a great distance from
  31. the Rnires, ther ivere in the form of Iyperbolas, and
  32. their dimentions vere as Follorrs. L et C. A, C B repre
  33. sent lines dramn upon the Paper parallel to the edges ot
  34. the Rnires, and betrreen wrhich aIl the Light vould
  35. Fall, is it passed betreen the edges oF the knires rith
  36. out intlexion; DF. a righe line drann chroush C. makino
  37. THC

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 127. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0303?run=74