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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 128

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  1. the Aneles AC.D, BC F equal to one anotter, and
  2. terminatins allthe Lisht whith FaIlS upon the Paper From
  3. the pointrrhere the edoes of the Rniresincet; eis, FKL,
  4. and sIr, three lyperbolical lines representinq the ter-
  5. minus oFthe Pador ot one ot the Rnires, the dark linc
  6. betreen the tirst and second tringes oFthat Madour, and
  7. the dark line betreen the second and third Fringes ot
  8. the lame Mador; Zip, Vkg and 2lr, thrce other IIY.
  9. perbolical lines reprelentinq the terminus of the Padon
  10. OF thc other Knite, the dark line betveen the Ars and
  11. second Fringes ot that Cador, and the dark line be-
  12. treen the second and third Fringes ot the lame Padon.
  13. And conceire that these three AIyperbolas are like and
  14. equal to the Forimer threc, and crossthem in the points
  15. ig k and l, and that the Phadtors oFthe Rniresare termi-
  16. nated and distinguistred From the Airst luminous fringes
  17. by the lines cis and xip, until the inectins and crol-
  18. lins ofthe fringes, and then those lines crols thefringes
  19. in theform oF dark lines, terminatins the Airst luminous
  20. Frinses within side, and distinguistuns them from ano-
  21. ther Lisht wrhich begins to appear at i, and illuminates
  22. allthe triangular space ipD Ls comprehended by thelc
  23. dark lines, and the risht line DH. OF thele Hy.
  24. Perbolas one ACmptoteis the line DF, and their other
  25. AEymptotes are paralel to the lines C. A and C. B. T et
  26. er reprelent a line dramn ans erhere upon the l’aper
  27. Parallel tothe ACymptote DF, and let this line crols
  28. therisht lines AC. in m and BC. in n, and the sIX dark
  29. lrperbolical lines in P, G Y; S, t V; and by meaturins
  30. the distances pc, qt, PV, and thence collectinq the
  31. the lenoctis oF the ordinates nP, HG, HF OF MS, ME,
  32. mr and doins chis at sereral distances ot the line PV,
  33. FrOm

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 128. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0304?run=74