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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 129

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  2. trom the Asymptote DF. vou mas find as mans points
  3. OFthese Hyperbolas as rou pleale, and thereby kno
  4. chat these curre lines are (Iy perbolas ditterins little From
  5. the conical Hyperbola. And by meaturins the lines
  6. 1, C. k, C.L, rou may find other points ot thele
  7. CUTVeS.
  8. fior instance, When the Rnires vere dictant From the
  9. tTole in theWindon ten Feet, and the Paper From the
  10. Anires 9 Fcet, and the Ansle contained by the edges ot
  11. the Enires to irhich the Angle AC. B is equal, Was sub.
  12. tendes br. a chord wrhich Was to the Radius a5 I t0 32
  13. aud the distance of the line er From the ACyimptote DF
  14. vas hralt an luch: l incatured che LIneS PS, GC, EV,
  15. and Found them o35, 065, 098 lnches respectivels,
  16. and by addins to their halts the linc; mn (Which here
  17. Wras the 128th part oF an Inch, or 00078 Inches) the
  18. lUmIS HP, nG, AF, Were 01828, 03328,04978 In-
  19. ches. I mealured also the distances ot the brightest
  20. Paxts oFthe Fringes irhich run betireen p9 aud st, 9L
  21. and EV, and next beyond r and v, and found chem 05,
  22. 08, and l17InCheS.
  23. dB5.
  24. Lhe Sun Cimins into my darkenea RoO CATOlBA a
  25. lnall round HIole made in a plate ot L ead rith a llender
  26. ein as abore; L placed at the Hole a Prilm to retraet
  27. che Listt, and Form on the oppolite WaII theSpectrum
  28. oF Colours, described in the third Lxperiment of the
  29. Axst BOOk. And then I Found thatthe Madors oF aII
  30. Bodies held in the coloured Lighe betveen the Prism
  31. and che Nall, Were bordered wich (rinses Of che Colour

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 129. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0305?run=74